That would be "Copper, Silver, Gold: an Indescribable Metal Alloy, by Egbert B Gebstadter..."?
That would be it!
PS. The Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson) "GEB" character was named for three other characters - Gunther, Enoch, and Bobbie. (You may infer that both the Hofstadter and the Stephenson books are among my favorites!)
Now THAT is intruiging.  Was I right that NS was tweaking someone and wrong about whom it was he was tweaking?
Cryptonomicon is my very favorite book.  GEB was very enjoyable, but there were a few things I didn't understand very well.
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