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This groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning book sets the standard for interdisciplinary writing, exploring the patterns and symbols in the thinking of mathematician Kurt Godel, artist M.C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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• Preface to GEB's Twentieth-anniversary Edition(P-1)
• Overview(p. viii)
• List of Illustrations(p. xiv)
• Words of Thanks(p. xix)
• Part I GEB
• Introduction: A Musico-Logical Offering(p. 3)
• Three-Part Invention(p. 29)
• Chapter I The MU-puzzle(p. 33)
• Two-Part Invention(p. 43)
• Chapter II Meaning and Form in Mathematics(p. 46)
• Sonata for Unaccompanied Achilles(p. 61)
• Chapter III Figure and Ground(p. 64)
• Contracrostipunctus(p. 75)
• Chapter IV Consistency, Completeness, and Geometry(p. 82)
• Little Harmonic Labyrinth(p. 103)
• Chapter V Recursive Structures and Processes(p. 127)
• Canon by Intervallic Augmentation(p. 153)
• Chapter VI The Location of Meaning(p. 158)
• Chromatic Fantasy, And Feud(p. 177)
• Chapter VII The Propositional Calculus(p. 181)
• Crab Canon(p. 199)
• Chapter VIII Typographical Number Theory(p. 204)
• A Mu Offering(p. 231)
• Chapter IX Mumon and Godel(p. 246)
• Part II EGB(p. 275)
• Prelude ...(p. 285)
• Chapter X Levels of Description, and Computer Systems(p. 285)
• ... Ant Fugue(p. 311)
• Chapter XI Brains and Thoughts(p. 337)
• English French German Suite(p. 366)
• Chapter XII Minds and Thoughts(p. 369)
• Aria with Diverse Variations(p. 391)
• Chapter XIII BlooP and FlooP and GlooP(p. 406)
• Air on G's String(p. 431)
• Chapter XIV On Formally Undecidable Propositions of TNT and Related Systems(p. 438)
• Birthday Cantatatata ...(p. 461)
• Chapter XV Jumping out of the System(p. 465)
• Edifying Thoughts of a Tobacco Smoker(p. 480)
• Chapter XVI Self-Ref and Self-Rep(p. 495)
• The Magnificrab, Indeed(p. 549)
• Chapter XVII Church, Turing, Tarski, and Others(p. 559)
• Shrdlu, Toy of Man's Designing(p. 586)
• Chapter XVIII Artificial Intelligence: Retrospects(p. 594)
• Contrafactus(p. 633)
• Chapter XIX Artificial Intelligence: Prospects(p. 641)
• Sloth Canon(p. 681)
• Chapter XX Strange Loops, Or Tangled Hierarchies(p. 684)
• Six-Part Ricercar(p. 720)
• Notes(p. 743)
• Bibliography(p. 746)
• Credits(p. 757)
• Index(p. 759)

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Douglas R. Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he also directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition.