ISBN: 9780465045402 - metamagical themas (27 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. Hofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Hofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, 852 pages, vertical scrape to rear cover An interlocked collection of literary, scientific, and artistic studies.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, As Issued. Trade softcover. Published NY: Basic Books, 1985. 8vo. wrappers, 6 1/8" x 9 1/4", xxviii+852pp., illustrated with b/w line drawings, 2 color plates. Text clean, bright, unmarked, binding strong. Good plus.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, Later Printing. Published by Basic Books, 1985. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good, with some shelf/edgewear. Ex-library copy. Has typical library markings.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Creativity) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good in Very good dust jacket. First Edition. writing on front end page.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Basic Books, New York, 1985. Xxviii, 852 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Metamagical Themas consists of 33 essays written by Douglas Hofstadter. The topics covered are broad; from the concept of self-reference applied to language and law, to defining creativity and exploring its relations to artificial intelligence, to biology and game theory. Articles are on memes, innumeracy, William Safire, Frederic Chopin, Rubik's Cube, strange at tractors, Lisp, Heisenburg's uncertainty principle, quantum mechanics, Alan Turing, sphexishness, Prisoner's dilemma, and other topics. ; 0 X 0 X 0 inches; 852 pages.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Minor shelf wear/ creasing on cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Book Club Edition. xxviii, 852 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ; BOMC ; ISBN: 0465045405 :; 9780465045402 ; LCCN: 83-46095 ; Includes articles, many of which originally appeared in Scientific American, on memes, innumeracy, William Safire, Frederic Chopin, Rubik's Cube, strange at tractors, Lisp, Heisenburg's uncertainty principle, quantum mechanics, Alan Turing, sphexishness, Prisoner's dilemma, and other topics. ; Contents : Section I: Snags and Snarls Chapter 1: On Self-Referential Sentences. The strangeness of language folding back on itself is explored here in dozens of different ways, many of them quite amusing. -- Chapter 2: Self-Referential Sentences: A Follow-Up. A large collection of new material carries the idea of linguistic folding-back considerably further, and goes more deeply into the mechanisms of linguistic self-reference and self-replication.-- Chapter 3: On Viral Sentences and Self-Replicating Structures. In which the concept of "memes", or self-replicating ideas, is discussed, as well as the idea of indirect self-reference. -- Chapter 4: Nomic: A Self-Modifying Game Based on Reflexivity in Law. A remarkable game is described, which resembles a government in that a large part of its activity is devoted to changing its laws lawfully. -- Section II: Sense and Society Chapter 5: World Views in Collision: The Skeptical Inquirer versus the National Enquirer. An inquiry into why so many people are taken in by publications that give much play to "paranormal" or "psi" phenomena, and a report on an unusual journal that combats the psi panderers. -- Chapter 6: On Number Numbness. A lamentation of the general low level of people's understanding of the vast numbers that describe our society's population, consumption, budgets, weaponry, and so on, including some suggestions for helping increase "numeracy". -- Chapter 7: Changes in Default Words and Images, Engendered by Rising Consciousness. On the deep, hidden, and oft-denied connections between subconscious imagery and discriminatory usage in everyday language. -- Chapter 8: A Person Paper on Purity in Language. Master William Satire vents his anger at those who, for cheap political reasons, would destroy the beauty of English by introducing ugly neologisms and changing the usage of venerated old terms. -- Section III: Sparking and Slipping -- Chapter 9: Pattern, Poetry, and Power in the Music of Frédéric Chopin. How did this great composer manage to encode extremely powerful and extremely delicate feelings into mere patterns of notes? -- Chapter 10. Parquet Deformations: A Subtle, Intricate Art Form -- Chapter 11. Stuff and Nonsense -- Chapter 12. Variations on a Theme as the Crux of Creativity -- Chapter 13. Metafont, Metamathematics, and Metaphysics -- Section IV: Structure and Strangeness Chapter 14. Magic Cubology -- Chapter 15. On Crossing the Rubicon ; blue cloth with gold lettering in color pictorial dustjacket ; highly entertaining reading ; thick volume ; tiny mark on front cover, else FINE/FINE. Book.…