Hofstadterismus
Andrew Hodges
- Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern by Douglas Hofstadter
Viking, 852 pp, £18.95, September 1985, ISBN 0 670 80687 0 - Ada: A Life and a Legacy by Dorothy Stein
MIT, 321 pp, £17.50, January 1986, ISBN 0 262 19242 X
These two books are completely different in form and content, but one common thread is the concern of both writers to combine a logical discourse with a social critique. Dorothy Stein brings psychological and historical understanding to an important topic in the modern development of logical ideas, while Douglas Hofstadter tries to bring logic and mathematics to bear upon the human condition. Both writers also share a panoramic, polymathic, total vision of their tasks.
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