#2 in the ranking · ideas · 1979
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Year by year
Peak: 50 mentions in 2024
Mentions per year: 2007: 7; 2008: 22; 2009: 18; 2010: 34; 2011: 21; 2012: 20; 2013: 17; 2014: 27; 2015: 34; 2016: 21; 2017: 39; 2018: 45; 2019: 26; 2020: 35; 2021: 21; 2022: 41; 2023: 17; 2024: 50; 2025: 14; 2026: 5.
Where it’s cited
What people write
From a text search; it doesn’t yet tell recommending apart from just mentioning.
When I was working on m Masters degree in Electrical Engineering way back in 1978, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth :) I had a prof who was really amazing, he was a Comp Sci prof and he gave me a copy of GEB and it changed my life.
Hacker News · 2024 · in “Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022)” · see comment ↗
Also, James Gleick's Chaos is a classic, as is the big original beast, Gödel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstadter.
Hacker News · 2022 · in “Ask HN: Math books you recommend just for the way they are written?” · see comment ↗
I also want to read Godel, Escher Bach, it's been recommended to me a lot.
Hacker News · 2021 · in “Ask HN: Which book do you want to read next?” · see comment ↗
The lecturer recommend a few books on his slides, which include "Gödel, Escher, Bach".
Stack Exchange · 2010 · in “"Gödel, Escher, Bach" still valid today?” · by Lasse Espeholt · CC BY-SA 2.5 · see comment ↗
Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Basic Books, 1979.
Stack Exchange · 2014 · in “Theory of computation introductory curriculum” · by Wandering Logic · CC BY-SA 3.0 · see comment ↗
However, I didn't get into Bach until after I had read GEB, and I don't feel I have missed out on anything.
Stack Exchange · 2012 · in “"Gödel, Escher, Bach" still valid today?” · by Ruben Tavernier · CC BY-SA 3.0 · see comment ↗
Tem vários livros que não são de codificação mas muito importantes como o Don't Make Me Think, The Design of Everyday Things, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware, The Passionate Programmer, Object Thinking, The…
TabNews · 2023 · in “Leituras obrigatórias para um melhor dev” · see comment ↗