Book Review: Gödel, Escher, Bach - An Eternal Golden Braid
Book Details Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter Published: 1999 (paperback) Themes: Logic, consciousness, recursion, mathematics, music, self-reference Rating: ★★★★★ (eventually) TL;DR This book is wild. It’s part math, part philosophy, part art theory, and somehow also a storybook with characters like Achilles and the Tortoise debating formal logic. It took me a few tries to get into, but once it clicked, Gödel, Escher, Bach turned into a recursive mind-trip I couldn’t stop thinking about. ...