Douglas Hofstadter
Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is probably best known for his 1980 Pulitzer Prize-winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid.Hofstadter received his Ph.D in Physics from the University of Oregon in 1975. He is currently (2002) a professor of cognitive science and computer science (among others) at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the son of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Hofstadter.
Douglas is bilingual (English and French), having spent his youth in Geneva. He spent a few years in Sweden in the mid 1960s and understands Swedish. He also speaks Italian, German and some Russian.
His interests include themes of the mind, creativity, consciousness, self-reference, translation, and mathematical games.
Author of (ISBN's refer to paperback editions):
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (ISBN 0465026567)
- The Mind's I (co-edited with Daniel Dennett) (ISBN 0465030912)
- Metamagical Themas (ISBN 0465045669)
- Ambigrammi (in Italian only)
- Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies[?] (ISBN 0465024750)
- Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language (ISBN 0465086454)
- A verse translation of Eugene Onegin by Aleksandr Pushkin (ISBN 0465020941)
See also:
External links
- Douglas Hofstadter (http://www.psych.indiana.edu/people/homepages/hofstadter.html) - Home page
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