Most of Hofstadter's books are characterized by some kind of structural alternation: in GEB between dialogues and chapters, in The Mind's I between selections and reflections, in Metamagical Themas between Chapters and Postscripts, and so forth.

When Martin Gardner retired from writing his " Mathematical Games " column for Scientific American magazine, Hofstadter succeeded him in 1981 – 1983 with a column entitled Metamagical Themas ( an anagram of " Mathematical Games ").

One of Hofstadter's columns in Scientific American concerned the damaging effects of sexist language, and two chapters of his book Metamagical Themas are devoted to that topic, one of which is a biting analogy-based satire entitled " A Person Paper on Purity in Language ", in which the reader's presumed revulsion at racism and racist language is used as a lever to motivate an analogous revulsion at sexism and sexist language.

* Metamagical Themas ( ISBN 0-465-04566-9 ) ( collection of Scientific American columns and other essays, all with postscripts )

A January 1983 Metamagical Themas column by Douglas Hofstadter, in Scientific American, was influential as was his 1985 book of the same name.

( The ruleset was actually first published in Douglas Hofstadter's column Metamagical Themas in Scientific American in June 1982.

* Douglas Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas

Douglas Hofstadter referred to the article in his book Metamagical Themas.

Douglas R. Hofstadter, in Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern, finds many of the illustrations " grotesque and disturbing " and others " extremely beautiful and visionary ".

Metamagical Themas is a collection of eclectic articles written for Scientific American during the early 1980s by Douglas Hofstadter, and published together as a book in 1985 by Basic Books ( ISBN 0-465-04566-9 ).

Metamagical Themas was also published in French, under the title Ma Thémagie ( InterEditions, 1988 ), the translators being Jean-Baptiste Berthelin, Jean-Luc Bonnetain, and Lise Rosenbaum.

He was one of the team responsible for translating Douglas Hofstadter's book Metamagical Themas into French, the others being Jean-Luc Bonnetain and Lise Rosenbaum.

* Metamagical Themas

The concept of superrationality ( or renormalized rationality ) was coined by Douglas Hofstadter, in his article series and book Metamagical Themas.

* Metamagical Themas

In the platonia dilemma introduced in Douglas Hofstadter's book Metamagical Themas, an eccentric trillionaire gathers 20 people together, and tells them that if one and only one of them sends him a telegram ( reverse charges ) by noon the next day, that person will receive a billion dollars.

* Metamagical Themas

Douglas Hofstadter, in his 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach ( and in the sequel, Metamagical Themas ), popularized this meaning of the term.

Gebstadter's third book appears in the bibliography to Hofstadter's third book, Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern.

* Hofstadter, Douglas R. " Metamagical themas: questing for the essence of mind and pattern ," Basic Books, 1996, page 569.

Wilder to a loyal audience of rural Ozarkians, who enjoyed her regular columns, whose topics ranged from home and family to World War I and other world events, to the fascinating world travels of her daughter and her own thoughts on the increasing options offered to women during this era.

Their better knowledge of the difficult and mountainous terrain allowed them to conduct quick surprise strikes with ranged weapons, with ambushes followed by quick retreats, causing great damage to the Roman columns and supply lines.

First, it could locate the enemy infantry, learn what they were doing, and hold them until the heavy foot columns could come up and take over.

The Santa Cruz mountains sprawl over three counties, and the roads twist through sky-tapping redwoods down whose furrowed columns ripple streams of rain, even when heat bakes the Santa Clara valley below at the left.

Image: Colonnadeparkguell. jpg | Colonnaded pathway where the road projects out from the hillside, with the vaulting forming a retaining wall which curves over to support the road, and transmits the load onto sloping columns.

Aedicular door surrounds that are architecturally treated, with pilasters or columns flanking the doorway and an entablature even with a pediment over it came into use with the 16th century.

The original thoroughfare, flanked by rows of columns and shops, was about 73 feet ( 22 meters ) wide ( roughly the equivalent of a present-day six lane motorway ), but buildings have extended onto the streets over the centuries, and the modern lanes replacing the ancient grid are now quite narrow.

At 02: 00 on 13 August, 40 squadrons were sent forward towards the enemy, followed at 03: 00, in eight columns, by the main Allied force pushing over the Kessel.

" On the stone slab there are 44 columns and 28 paragraphs that contained over 282 laws.

One of the most notable hypostyle mosques is the Great Mosque of Cordoba in Spain, the building being supported by over 850 columns.

Sensory neurons have axons that run from the toes to the dorsal columns, over 1. 5 meters in adults.

Representations of slingers can be found on artifacts from all over the ancient world, including Assyrian and Egyptian reliefs, the columns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius, on coins and on the Bayeux Tapestry.

The material for the construction is brought from all over the empire – such as Hellenistic columns from the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, and large stones from quarries in porphyry from Egypt.

Highlights of the church's components include the Main chapel, where may be found the praying statues of the Catholic Monarchs, which consists of a series of Corinthian columns with the entablature resting on their capitals, and the vault over all.

Post and lintel, or in contemporary usage Post and beam, is a simple construction method using a lintel, header, or architrave as the horizontal member over a building void supported at its ends by two vertical columns, pillars, or posts.

Brush electroplating has several advantages over tank plating, including portability, ability to plate items that for some reason cannot be tank plated ( one application was the plating of portions of very large decorative support columns in a building restoration ), low or no masking requirements, and comparatively low plating solution volume requirements.

I was showered with blame in dozens of editorials and columns from primarily conservative newspapers all over the country heartily agreeing with Peale's assertions.

The ancient city was situated on a peninsula on which the modern city has been built over the ancient Greek city of which only a few ruins remain including part of the city wall, two temple columns dating to the 6th century BC and tombs.

Kenyon gradually pieced the fragments together, making three independent sections: the first, nine feet long with twenty-two columns of writing ; the next section, a little over two feet long with six columns ; the third, three and a half feet long with ten columns – a total length of almost fifteen feet and thirty-nine columns.

I would walk and hitch and sail away from this dark city to the bright spaces of the wet west coast, and there throw myself into the tall, glittering seas beyond Iona ( with its cargo of mouldering kings ) to let the gulls and seals and tides have their way with my remains, and in my dying moments look forward to an encounter with Staffa ’ s six-sided columns and Fingal ’ s cave ; or I might head south to Corryvrecken, to be spun inside the whirlpool and listen with my waterlogged deaf ears to its mile-wide voice ringing over the wave-race ; or be borne north, to where the white sands sing and coral hides, pink-fingered and hard-soft, beneath the ocean swell, and the rampart cliffs climb thousand-foot above the seething acres of milky foam, rainbow-buttressed.

Mansart raised its drum with an attic storey over its main cornice, and employed the paired columns motif in his more complicated rhythmic theme.

Unfortunately one of the columns in this model has fallen over.

A feud in their columns, over baseball, develops into romance, love, and marriage, despite their different backgrounds and worlds.