Douglas R. Hofstadter
Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American professor of cognitive science whose research focuses on the sense of "I", consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. He is best known for his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, first published in 1979. It won both the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and a National Book Award (at that time called The American Book Award) for Science. His 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.
Books Douglas R. Hofstadter has authored
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Metamagical Themas
by Douglas R. Hofstadter • January 1, 1985 • Computers & Technology
Hofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.
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Gödel, Escher, Bach
by Douglas R. Hofstadter • February 5, 1999 • Computers & Technology
A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly wi...
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