Tag Archives: Douglas Hofstadter
GEB, Properties of Natural Numbers and Chamakam
I had written previously about how good I find the book Godel, Escher and Bach: The Eternal Golden Baird. Last week, I read chapters 3 and 4 of the book. In these chapters, Dr. Douglas Hofstadter speaks of Figure-Ground and its prominence in formal systems. Dr. Douglas Hofstadter goes into great detail to explain Figure […]
A good book
It seldom happens that you pick up a book just by looking at the name. It happened to me with “worshipping false gods”. It happened to me again with “Godel, Escher and Bach : The Eternal Golden Baird“. I like to read books, blogs, magazines, almost anything interesting because it opens up the world of […]
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