Douglas R. Hofstadter

b. 1945

2 standalone books

Douglas Hofstadter is an American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature. His research covers the sense of self, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. His 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid won 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.

Born

1945