G?del, Escher, Bach

an eternal golden braid

Discusses the unity among Johann Sebastian Bach's multifaceted compositions, graphic artist M.C. Escher's paradoxical drawings, and the mathematical concepts of Kurt Godel, exploring the Strange Loop phenomenon that occurs in all their work, in which moving upwards or downwards through the levels of a hierarchical system leads right back to the beginning.

Basic Books
1999
9780329830403
book
Lexile: 
1 150

Holdings

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146640451012072341233240340388WEHS491WEHS901081510.1 HOF510.115814652241736518457