The Sciences
Metamagical Themas
Parquet deformations: patterns of tiles that shift gradually in one dimension
Stories by Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Sciences
Metamagical Themas, June 1983
The calculus of cooperation is tested through a lottery
The Sciences
Metamagical Themas, May 1983
Computer tournaments of the Prisoner's Dilemma suggest how cooperation evolves
The Sciences
Metamagical Themas, April 1983
In which a discourse on the language Lisp concludes with a gargantuan Italian feast
The Sciences
Metamagical Themas, March 1983
Tripping the light recursive in Lisp, the language of artificial intelligence
The Sciences
Metamagical Themas, February 1983
The pleasures of Lisp: the chosen language of artificial intelligence
The Sciences
Metamagical Themas, January 1983
Virus-like sentences and self-replicating structures
The Sciences
Metamagical Themas, January 1982
Sense makes more sense than nonsense, but nonsense may still have its purposes
The Sciences
Metamagical Themas, November 1982
"Default assumptions" and their effects on writing and thinking
The Sciences
Metamagical Themas, October 1982
Variations on a theme as the essence of imagination
The Sciences
Metamagical Themas, September 1982
Can be inspiration be mechanised?
The Sciences
Metamagical Themas, August 1982
Undercut, Flaunt, Hruska, behavioral evolution and other games of strategy
The Sciences
Metamagical Themas, July 1982
Beyond Rubik's Cube: spheres, pyramids, dodecahedrons and God knows what else
The Sciences
Metamagical Themas, June 1982
About Nomic: a heroic game that explores the reflexivity of the law
The Sciences
Metamagical Themas, May 1982
Number numbness, or why innumeracy may be just as dangerous as illiteracy
The Sciences
Metamagical Themas, April 1982
The music of Frédéric Chopin: startling aural patterns that also startle the eye
The Sciences
Metamagical Themas, March 1982
Is the genetic code an arbitrary one, or would another code work as well?
The Sciences
Metamagical Themas, February 1982
About two kinds of inquiry: "National Enquirer" and "The Skeptical Inquirer"
The Sciences
Metamagical Themas, January 1982
A self-referential column about last January's column about self-reference
The Sciences
Metamagical Themas, November 1981
Strange attractors: mathematical patterns delicately poised between order and chaos
