Product Description: In 1931 Kurt Gödel published his fundamental paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems." This revolutionary paper challenged certain basic assumptions underlying much research in mathematics and logic...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A new edition of the classic study of the enigmatic artist looks at Escher's notebooks, explains how he developed his symmetrical designs and puzzle-like interlocking of forms, and shows a variety of his drawings.

Examines the facts surrounding the 1973 federal trial that dealt with the dispute over which company invented the first 'automatic electronic digital computer.'

Product Description: ¿Puede un sistema comprenderse a sí mismo ? Si esta pregunta se refiere a la mente humana, entonces nos encontramos ante una cuestión clave del pensamiento científico. Y de la filosofía. Y del arte. Investigar este misterio es una aventura que recorre la matemática, la física, la biología, la psicología y, muy especialmente, el lenguaje...read more

Product Description: With contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The Mind's I explores the meaning of self and consciousness through the perspectives of literature, artificial intelligence, psychology, and other disciplines...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An exploration of the patterns and symbols in the thinking of mathematician Kurt Godel, artist M. C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach explores the nature of the links between informal systems that underlie all human cognitive activity. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Analyzes the various translations of an obscure French poem to show the endless complexity of humans and their languages

Product Description: Hofstadter’s collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Brilliant, shattering, mind-jolting, The  Mind's I is a searching, probing nook--a  cosmic journey of the mind--that goes deeply into  the problem of self and self-consciousness as  anything written in our time. From verbalizing  chimpanzees to scientific speculations involving  machines with souls, from the mesmerizing, maze-like  fiction of Borges to the tantalizing, dreamlike  fiction of Lem and Princess Ineffable, her circuits  glowing read and gold, The Mind's I   opens the mind to the Black Box of fantasy, to the  windfalls of reflection, to new dimensions of  exciting possibilities...read more

Product Description: With contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The Mind's I explores the meaning of self and consciousness through the perspectives of literature, artificial intelligence, psychology, and other disciplines...read more