Douglas Hofstadter is an American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. His 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid won both the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and a National Book Award for Science. His 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.—Wikipedia 2021-03-03
Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Douglas Richard Hofstadter, دوغلاس هوفشتادتر, דאגלס ר הופשטטר, and 15 others
ダグラス・ホフスタッター, ダグラス・R ホフスタッター, داگلاس هافستادر, D. R ホフスタッター, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Douglas R. Hofstädter, Дуглас Гофстедтер, דאגלס הופשטטר, 더글러스호프스태터, דגלס ר הופשטטר, Douglas Hofstadter, Дуглас Хофштадтер, Ντάγκλας Χόφσταντερ, 侯世達, Դուգլաս Հոֆչտադտեր - Born:
- Feb. 15, 1945
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Books by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Frederik Pohl, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Larry Niven, Martin Gardner, Isaac Asimov, Marc Laidlaw, George Zebrowski, Greg Bear, Watson, Ian, Norman Kagan, Anatoly Dnieprov, Don Sakers, William F. Orr, Henry Gross, Gregory Benford, Rudy Rucker, Kathryn Cramer, Robert Sheckley, Ruth Berman: Mathenauts (1989, New English Library)
Mathenauts
by Frederik Pohl, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Larry Niven, and 16 others