#13 in Popular science
Gödel, Escher, Bach
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About the book
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979) by Douglas Hofstadter, is a book about the intellectual themes common to the lives and the works of the logician Kurt Gödel, the artist M. C. Escher, and the composer Johann Sebastian Bach, and shows the thematic connections among mathematics, symmetry, and intelligence. Through short stories, illustrations, and analyses, the book explains how systems acquire meaningful context from the "meaningless" elements that compose a system; self-reference and formal rules; isomorphism; the meaning of communication; how knowledge can be represented and stored; the methods and limitations of symbolic representation; and the notion of "meaning".
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.8 across 309 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 63% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Popular science average of 8.4. That is how 8.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.4 | 73 | 24% |
| Hardcover | 8.9 | 236 | 76% |
Frequently asked
What is Gödel, Escher, Bach rated?
8.6 out of 10, from 309 reader ratings across 2 independent sources.
Is Gödel, Escher, Bach worth reading?
Readers give it 8.6/10 from 309 ratings, which puts it ahead of 73 % of the Popular science shelf.
Where does Gödel, Escher, Bach rank?
#13 in Popular science on the current snapshot.
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