Hey folks, Max here.

Ok - so today is the first day of our first week! This week we’re going to power through the Introduction, A Musico-Logical Offering, the first dialogue, Three Part Invention, and the first chapter, The MU-Puzzle.

The introduction is a broad overview of Hofstadter’s project. You’ll be introduced to Bach through an amazing story about the creation of the Musical Offering, and we’ll meet M.C. Escher and Kurt Gödel and get a history of the last hundred years of mathematics in 2 pages as well. The first dialogue and chapter are pretty straightforward - they will lay the ground rules for future discussions of mathematical theory and give us our first puzzle.

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