2. What is GEB?
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This article is from the Hofstadter and GEB FAQ, by TANAKA Tomoyuki tanaka@cs.indiana.edu with numerous contributions by others.
2. What is GEB?
from the Jargon File (The Hacker's Dictionary)
http://beast.cc.emory.edu/Jargon30/APPEND_C/GEB_BOOK.HTML
http://www.fwi.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/b/Bibliography.html
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| Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
| Douglas Hofstadter, Basic Books, 1979 [...]
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| This book reads like an intellectual Grand Tour of hacker
| preoccupations. Music, mathematical logic, programming,
| speculations on the nature of intelligence, biology, and Zen
| are woven into a brilliant tapestry themed on the concept of
| encoded self-reference. [...]
the funny character after the first "G" in the book's title is
the German "O Umlaut". it's an "O" with two horizontal dots on
top. Kurt Go:del's name is sometimes spelled as "Godel" or
"Goedel". nonstandard alternatives: "Go:del", "Go"del".
educated Americans usually pronounce Go:del as "Girdle". the
more authentic pronunciation of "O Umlaut" (with your mouth
shaped for "Oh" say "Eh") would probably sound affected.
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