Douglas R. Hofstadter
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"A New York Times Bestseller 2014, 2015" "The Imitation Game, Winner of the 2015 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay" "Winner of the 2015 (27th) USC Libraries Scripter Award, University of Southern California Libraries" "One of The Guardian's Best Popular Physical Science Books of 2014, chosen by GrrlScientist" Andrew Hodges teaches mathematics at the University of Oxford. Douglas Hofstadter is the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished...
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"In 1931 Kurt Godel disrupted some of the fundamental assumptions underlying mathematics and logic with the publication of his revolutionary paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems." Ironically, few mathematicians of the time were able to understand the young scholar's complex proof, and the full importance of this work was largely overlooked for many years. Godel was at last recognized by his peers...
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2022.
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"To Light the Flame of Reason is all about the art of clear thinking, an art that is needed now more than ever in the world we now live in. Written for anyone who wants to navigate better in this world filled with populist dogmas, anti-science attitudes, and pseudo-philosophy"--
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