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Includes Articles, Many Of Which Originally Appeared In Scientific American, On Memes, Innumeracy, William Safire, Frederic Chopin, Rubik's Cube, Strange Attractors, Lisp, Heisenburg's Uncertainty Principle, Quantum Mechanics, Alan Turing, Sphexishness, Prisoner's Dilemma, And Other Topics. Pt. 1. Snags And Snarls -- 1. On Self-referential Sentences -- 2. Self-referential Sentences: A Follow-up -- 3. On Viral Sentences And Self-replicating Structures -- 4. Nomic: A Self-modifying Game Based On Reflexivity In Law. Pt. 2. Sense And Society -- 5. World Views In Collision: The Skeptical Inquirer Versus The National Enquirer -- 6. On Number Numbness -- 7. Changes In Default Words And Images, Engendered By Rising Consciousness -- 8. A Person Paper On Purity In Language. Pt. 3. Sparking And Slipping -- 9. Pattern, Poetry And Power In The Music Of Frederic Chopin -- 10. Parquet Deformations: A Subtle, Intricate Art Form -- 11. Stuff And Nonsense -- 12. Variations On A Theme As The Crux Of Creativity -- 13. Metafont, Metamathematics, And Metaphysics. Pt. 4. Structure And Strangeness -- 14. Magic Cubology -- 15. On Crossing The Rubicon -- 16. Mathematical Chaos And Strange Attractors -- 17.

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Author

Nicholas Christopher, Douglas R. Hofstadter

Publisher

Penguin Putnam~trade

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9780140085341

Category

science

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Computer Science, Science

Rating

4.16 / 5 (2,992 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14