Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

1979 • 832 pages

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to the study of the human mind and the development of artificial intelligence.


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Towards the end, as the book explores concepts from AI, I lost a bit of interest because I had doubts about whether it's out-dated. AI has progressed greatly since this book was written.

But the first half, leading up to the explanation of Godel's theorem, I found fascinating.

June 18, 2020

I've been trying to read this book for a decade.

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