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Book Review: Gödel, Escher, Bach - Griffin Knight
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Everyone's favorite book they've never read.
Book Review: Gödel, Escher, Bach Everyone's favorite book they've never read. Griffin Oct 02, 2024 8 Share They say that if you want to earn respect in prison, you should go up to the biggest guy in the yard and punch him in the face. While I cannot attest to the efficacy of such advice, the intellectual equivalent is writing a book review of Gödel, Escher, Bach . Most people would describe the book to be about the intersection of math, art, and music (it’s not). Douglas Hofstadter became so frustrated about this misconception that he published a new book 30 years later titled I Am a Strange L
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