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Aravis
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After Godel, Escher, Bach
« on: Aug 4th, 2006, 9:33am » |
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So I've just completed my first reading of Godel, Escher, Bach, and am interested if anyone has any reading suggestions in the same vein.
I can suggest 'Flatterland' if you haven't read that yet.
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Re: After Godel, Escher, Bach
« Reply #1 on: Aug 4th, 2006, 1:48pm » |
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I haven't read "Godel, Escher, Bach", so I'm not sure what vein it is in exactly.
But I can recommend pretty much anything by (or in collaboration with) Ian Stewart. Like "Does god play dice" (on chaos theory), "A magical maze" (puzzles and mathematics), "What does a martian look like" (on extraterrestial life), or "The science of discworld" (on science in general).
He also wrote "flatterland", but I haven't read that yet.
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Re: After Godel, Escher, Bach
« Reply #2 on: Aug 4th, 2006, 3:34pm » |
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He also wrote Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
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The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
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I Am a Strange Loop.
There is also Godel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse by Torkel Franzen, a regular poster on sci.math.
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Re: After Godel, Escher, Bach
« Reply #3 on: Feb 10th, 2010, 12:17pm » |
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Would anyone happen to know if Goedel's proof implies that any limitation can be inferred about the true but unprovable, TbI, statements?
Since much of the proof is concerned with provability vs truth, could it perhaps be the case that the TbI statents could be all about provability, i.e. on the meta-level rather than for example about relations between numbers?
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