Metamagical Themas
Subtitle: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
By: Douglas R. Hofstadter.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 852
ISBN-13: 9780465045402
Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Intellect; Science -- Philosophy; Metamathematics; Self (Philosophy); Amusements
Description: Includes articles, many of which originally appeared in Scientific American, on memes, innumeracy, William Safire, Frederic Chopin, Rubik's Cube, strange attractors, Lisp, Heisenburg's uncertainty principle, quantum mechanics, Alan Turing, sphexishness, Prisoner's dilemma, and other topics.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 802-819.
Includes index.