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Thanks for the video!

I've read this book but it was in pamphlet format over 20 years ago.and I was smiling the entire time.however having a few outer body experiences this totally makes perfect sense if you overstand👁️👁️👁️🛸

this just made me want to read this book. very intriguing.

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I just read „I Am A Strange Loop“ and found it pretty engaging and deep! It’s going to take some time but maybe I‘m going to read GED too. Thanks for doing your best at describing what the book is about, I understand the notion of self-referential loops a little better bc of it.

The Abbott Abbott pun is really funny. Didn't know A. stood for Abbott.

Good stuff

Lovely video. I’m intrigued as a microbiome scientist. We are trying to understand the trajectories of microbiomes compositions over space and time to make predictions or diagnosis health/disease. I’d love to see if ergodic theory could be applied. Is there a book or two that you recommend as an entry level introduction to the topic?

It's the only book that I have never been able to finish out of 9 years of academic science. If you believe you are intelligent - then test yourself with this bad boy. One page might have you in contemplation for a month. In my top 3 for sure.

Great video!

This was honestly a very simple way of introducing the subject thanks for that. I have a video series on the history of maths on my channel you might like th-cam.com/play/PLaINFseE0hFrJftgsQ3UsNhjKUtVPE7HX.html

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I read this in 1985 when in my early thirties. It was a profound influence and I still rate it among the top ten books of my life.

Great explanation. Love the book. And like you said at the end, it also changed how I view things. I'm confident there's as yet undiscovered mappings of one branch of mathematics to another. So that we would be able to transfer a question impossible to answer in one branch to another. Maybe Wile's 130 page proof of Fermat's last theorem could maybe take 5 if we mapped the question correctly. And I also find it plausible that our brain uses an advanced form of Godel numbering to be able to reference itself.

11 is the magic number… if your smart enough you’ll understand why 🫡

Wait... you're around 30? Bro... exercise a bit

It’s been decades since I read this book (I’m probably due for another spin.) My biggest takeaway was an exploration of the nature of information. A book, in this case this book, can contain a lot of interesting ideas on the nature of information. I could rip the spine off, and hand you a pile of pages with the page numbers redacted. You could attempt to put them in order, but it would be incredibly challenging. You could still read each page, and develop a decent understanding of the points being made and the ideas being put forth. I could then take those pages and cut out each word. Handing them to a new reader, they would have an extremely difficult time developing any idea what the book was about. That being said, if someone really wanted to develop an understanding of the book, they could parse the words through an algorithm and discover which words had an above average representation to develop a sense of what ideas are being discussed, if not what points are being made about them. I could then take each of those words and cut them into letters. Almost no information can no be extrapolated from this pile of letters. There is the knowledge that this was text, there is information on the alphabet used, and therefore some idea of the language the book was written in. I could then take these letters and break them down into atoms. Gone are the letters, the text, the meaning. What information there resides? A preponderance of carbon. A balance of hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen that suggests these were once organic compounds. Everything that made up the book is still present, therefore the information was never in the paper or the letters or the words. Sure, some information was present in all of these things, but information isn’t a matter of substance but form. I can tell you what was IN Godel, Escher, Bach, but I can not give you an UNDERSTANDING of Gödel, Escher, Bach without you experiencing it’s form.

this sounds perfect for stochastic control

This book has been on my shelf intimidating me for two years. I still wonder if I have enough gears in my head to tackle it. Thanks for your wonderful review! This video somehow ended up on TH-cam home scrolling screen and it was very entertaining. I like math. I love tea. I’ll be watching more. 😃

Thank you! 😊

Damn this explanation with a guy holding a tea mug trumped all the other youtube using complex visuals and graphics. Thanks a lot

Question. Why not make each bit like: Pi³, pi², pi¹, pi⁰ In that way, it would all be in terms of pi itself. Or is this just stupid?!

Heavens! Hofstadter created a deep rabbit hole full of delicious reasoning "just" to make Gödel's proof palatable. The result is impossibly yummy because he connected together three geniuses Gödel (logician), Escher (artist) and Bach (composer). Armed with wit and ingenuity, he goes about showing off isomorphisms among mathematics, art, and music. He even teases you with Lewis Carroll type of dialogs. Suddenly you are chewing very complex ideas but having lots of fun. The main goal is, of course, to understand how the smart-stupids (computers) could outperform the human brain. In the end, he jumps in his own damn book bringing Babbage and Turing to close the whole thing brilliantly. While(true){WOW!}.

This is really cool. Thanks for making the video 👍

I found that I had to read some parts over again in order to make certain that I got the point the author wanted to make...but it was MORE than worth it. Strangely enough, as I read this book, I kept thinking back to 'Magister Ludi' by Hermann Hesse and his ideas of interplay between between art, mathematics and music. I recommend this book to anyone who has the patience to plow through it.

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Not much conspiracy theory in math but cranks are virtually omnipresent whenever there's an unsolved problem with accessible statement.

So, in base π, we can also write 1 as 0.301102111002021... (base π), 2 as 1.301102111002021 3 as 2.301102111002021 4 as 3.301102111002021 ?

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Please explain negadecimal, it makes no sense to me.

That was great!

This was something I wanted to research in college. Never got a chance to invest into it, as I wasn't aware of any professors that studied the topic. Most were applied analysists or combinatorists.

Bases can be explained without the symbol zero. Not many people know this or even utilize this.

Spacepunk~13,8B Florian Mari 4D book (like Flatland)

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What are the odds in 2021, I would hear the word Innumeracy on FOX and end up here. Ai the 2.05 mark on this video @ th-cam.com/video/k9D-5lNW1K4/w-d-xo.html

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What is the meaning of 1_A (used like a function symbol throughout the numerator in 06:26 ) ?

Brilliant explanation. Thanks a lot!

How was the font size of that edition?

Thank you so much! The video is so clear that a foreign undergrad chemistry student can understand the concept immediately! (Just came here for molecular dynamic simulation courses)

You look like a lovely bloke. Subbed!

This was an awesome video!

Best explanation of this subject

Nice channel! Good explanation. Thanks! So I learned it is turtles all the way down.

Kind of boring book for me... but I’m not American. So it might have been the baseball chapter.

I love your work sir. Could you please advise someone where should he begin his math journey? Is there any book that is not as boring as a maths textbook but can make you fall in love with math with nice stories or explanations or imagination or something similar? Exploring basic concepts to lay a foundation of understanding and passion for math?

Great review. Liked style of hugging the book. Could feel the affection. It was much more than a book review. Good job.