Godel,
Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Twenty years after it topped the bestseller charts, Douglas R. Hofstadter's
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is still something of
a marvel. Besides being a profound and entertaining meditation on human
thought and creativity, this book looks at the surprising points of contact
between the music of Bach, the artwork of Escher, and the mathematics of
Gödel. It also looks at the prospects for computers and artificial
intelligence (AI) for mimicking human thought. For the general reader and
the computer techie alike, this book still sets a standard for thinking
about the future of computers and their relation to the way we think. Amazon.com Paperback from Basic Books
The
Misbehavior of Markets by Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson
Hardcover from Basic Books
Book Published: 03 August, 2004
