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Hofstadter, a computer scientist, and his collaborator Daniel C. Dennett, a philosophy expert, avoid technical jargon and esoteric language throughout the book. Hofstadter is, or course, well practiced at writing for the layman; he authors a regular column in Scientific American and won a Pulitzer Prize for his book, Godel, EScher, and Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. Working with Hofstadter, Dennett--author of Branistorms:- Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology--expands on his own explanations of artificial intelligence, computers and the unity or divisibility of the soul...
...section to Great Names in the annals of symmetry and self-reference. "MARTIN GARDNER" and "ASIMOV" both preserve their shape upside-down. Read "BORGES" a second time: It's "JORGE" written over "LUIS." And in a tip of the hat to Inversions's literary soulmate, Douglas R. Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach, Kim has created a series of appropriate representations of those three names...
...Kurt Godel, Sc.D., mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the dominating figure in logic today and has been this for over 40 years . . . His work is a foundation and life force...
...ordinary. In the amazing School of Mathematics, Yang and Lee are only two of a host of hyper-brilliant physicists and mathematicians who read like a "Who's Who in Physics and Mathematics."' On its professional staff in recent years have been Armond Bore Albert Einstein, Kurt Godel, Deane Montgomery, Marston Morse, Oppenheimer, Abraham Pais, Oswald Veblen, John von Neuman, Bengt Stromgren, Hassler Whitney, Herman Weyl, and Yang...
...University of California asked to include his work in a new book he is writing. M.I.T. has heard him lecture, and so has the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. But Dick Friedberg himself has proved something of a disappointment to U.S. mathematicians. "Unfortunately," says Czech-born Kurt Godel of the institute, "he wants to study medicine. An achievement like this at his age comes only once in a lifetime...