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What are some other books like this that sort of mash together a broad variety of concepts in math/philosophy/science/art? Hofstadter seems to really know his stuff. I've got I am a Strange Loop already.

>> No.6683740

>>6683737
>/sci/ please give me pop math books
Why?

>> No.6683996

>>6683737
The superrationality essays from Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas are online and absolute must-reads.

>> No.6684109

>>6683737
>bach

why is bach in the title?

like the composer bach?

>> No.6684247

>>6683737

This book was okay.

>> No.6684481

>>6684109
It was theorized that Bach actually had created complex math formulas from where he derived all of his music. Look it up, quite interesting.

>> No.6685862

>>6683737
bump for interest, I too would love to read more books like this
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>> No.6686275

>>6684109
>>6684481
I wouldn't say he used Mathmatical formulas, so much as, Music is Math in the sense that Music is the organization or sounds according to resonate harmonic frequencies that occur at regular intervals. It's kind of like does the Pyramid of Giza express the phi and pi ratios because the Egyptians were secretly aliens or is it because those are really pretty ratios and people tend to use circles and golden rectangles in architecture?

Good book though, used it for a paper on Model Creation.