Godel, Escher, Bach & I Am A Strange Loop (2 Volumes)

Douglas R. Hofstadter

New York

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Basic Books

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1979-2007

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First Edition.

24cm x 16.5cm. xxi, 777, xix, 412 pages, 2 volumes. Finely bound full green leather, gilt lettering, full gilt spine, gilt double rule, dentelles.

A finely bound set of first editions of Hofstadter’s Pulitzer Prize winning GEB: An Eternal Golden Braid, and I Am A Strange Loop. In GEB Hofstadter theorises on intelligence and consciousness through an exploration of common themes of mathematician Kurt Godel, artist M. C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach. I Am A Strange Loop further develops the central message of GEB, examining the concept of a strange loop to explain the sense of “i”. Signed bindings by Karen McGuire.

Minor soiling to edges. Near Fine Condition.