集异璧－GEB，是数学家哥德尔、版画家艾舍尔、音乐家巴赫三个名字的前缀。《哥德尔、艾舍尔、巴赫书：集异璧之大成》是在英语世界中有极高评价的科普著作，曾获得普利策非小说奖。它通过对哥德尔的数理逻辑，艾舍尔的版画和巴赫的音乐三者的综合阐述，引人入胜地介绍了数理逻辑 学、可计算理 论、人工智能学、语言学、遗传学、音乐、绘画的理论等方面，构思精巧、含义深刻、视野广阔、富于哲学韵味。
中译本前后费时十余年，译者都是数学和哲学的专家，还得到原作者的直接参与，译文严谨通达，特别是在原作者的帮助下，把西方的文化典故和说法，尽可能转换为中国文化的典故和说法，使这部译本甚至可看作是一部新的创作，也是中外翻译史上的一个创举。

For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines , he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will be combined with the vastly greater capacity, speed, and knowledge-sharing ability of our creations.