Gödel, Escher, Bach An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

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English Frenlh German Suite
1 Lewis Carroll, The Annotated Alice (Alice's
AdventureJ in Wonderland and Through the
Looking-Gla.lJ). Introduction and Notes by
Martin Gardner (New York: Meridian Press,
New American Library, 1960). This source
contains all three versions. The original
sources for the French and German texts are


given below.
2 Frank L. Warrin, The New Yorker, Jan. 10,
1931.
" Robert Scott, "The Jabberwock Traced to
Its True Source", Macmillan's Magazine, Feb.
1872.

Chapter XII: Minds and Thoughts
1 Warren Weaver, "Translation", in
Machine Translation of Languages, Wm. N.
Locke and A. Donald Booth, eds. (New York:
John Wiley and Sons, and Cambridge, Ma~s.:
M.l.T. Press, 1955), p. 18.

2 C. H. MacGillavry, Symmetry Aspect,· of the
Periodic Drawings of M. C. Escher, p. ,'111.
" J. R. Lucas, "Minds, Machines, and
Gilder', in A. R. Anderson, ed., Minds and
Machines, pp. 57-9.

Chapter XIII: BlooP and FlooP and GlooP
1 J. M. Jauch, Are Quanta Real?, pp. 63-65.

Chapter XIV: On Formally Undecidable Propositions
of TNT and Related Systems
1 The title of Gilders 1931 article included
a Roman numeral "I" at the end, signifying
that he intended to follow it up with a more
detailed defense of some of the difficult ar-

guments. However, the first paper was so
widely acclaimed that a second one was ren-
dered superHuous, and it was never written.

Chapter XV: Jumping out of the System
1 Lucas in Anderson, p. 43.
2 Ibid., p. 48.
" Ibid., pp. 48-9.
, M. C. Escher, The Graphic Work of M. C.

Escher (New York: Meredith Press, 1967), p.
21.
5 Ibid., p. 22.
6 E. Goffman, Frame Analysis, p. 475.

Edifying Thoughts of a Tobacco Smoker
1 This translation of Bach's poem is taken
from Da\'id and Mendel, The Bach Reader, pp.
97-8.
Chapter XVII: Church, Turing, Tarski, and Others
1 Stanislaw Ulam, Adventures o/a Mathemati·
ciall, p. 13.
, James R. Newman, "Srinh'asa Ramanu·
jan", in James R. Newman, ed., The World of
Mathematics (New York: Simon and Schuster,
1956), Vol. I, pp. 372-3.
" Ibid., p. 375.
's. R. Ranganathan, Ramal/ujal/, pp. 81-2.

5 Newman, p. 375.
6 Ibid., p. 375.
7 Ibid., p. 375-6.
K Ibid., p. 376.


  • Lucas in Anderson, p. 44.



  1. Ibid., p. 54.
    11 Ibid., p. 53.


SHRDLU, Toy of Man's Designing
1 This Dialogue is adapted from Terry
Winograd, "A Procedural Model of Lan·
guage Cnderstanding", in R. Schank and K.

744


Colby, eds., Computer Models of Thought and
Language, pp. 155-66. Only the names of two
characters have been modified.

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