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Douglas R. Hofstadter

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

American physicist, computer scientist and professor of cognitive science

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15. Februar 1945

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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas R. Hofstadter First published in 1979 — 30 editions

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The Mind's I (Penguin Press Science)

by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett First published in 1962 — 23 editions

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Metamagical themas: questing for the essence of mind and pattern

by Douglas R. Hofstadter First published in 1985 — 15 editions

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I Am a Strange Loop

by Douglas R. Hofstadter First published in 2007 — 8 editions

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Fluid concepts and creative analogies: computer models of the fundamental mechanisms of thought

by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Fluid Analogies Research Group First published in 1995 — 5 editions

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To Light the Flame of Reason: Clear Thinking for the Twenty-First Century

by Christer Sturmark and Douglas R. Hofstadter First published in 2022 — 4 editions

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Le Ton beau de Marot: in praise of the music of language

by Douglas R. Hofstadter First published in 1997 — 4 editions

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Butterfly in the Quantum World: The Story of the Most Fascinating Quantum Fractal

by Indubala I. Satija and Douglas R. Hofstadter First published in 2016 — 3 editions

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Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder

by Rudy Rucker, Isaac Asimov, Norman Kagan, Greg Bear, Ruth Berman, Anatoly Dnieprov, Martin Gardner, Ian Watson, Kathryn Cramer, and 10 others First published in 1987 — 3 editions
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Rhapsody on a theme by Clément Marot: The Grace A. Tanner lecture in human values delivered at Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah, April 20, 1995 (Grace A. Tanner lecture in human values)

by Douglas R. Hofstadter First published in 1995 — 2 editions

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Shakespeare's plays weren't written by him, but by someone else of the same name: an essay on intensionality and frame-based knowledge representation systems

by Douglas R. Hofstadter First published in 1982 — 2 editions

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Metafont, Metamathematics, and Metaphysics: Comments on Donald Knuth's Article "The Concept of a Meta-Font"

by Douglas R. Hofstadter First published in 1982 — 1 edition

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The Tumult of Inner Voices or What Is the Meaning of the Word 'I'? (Grace A. Tanner Lecture in Human Values, 1982)

by Douglas R. Hofstadter First published in 1982 — 1 edition

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GEB: yi tiao yong heng di jin dai

by Douglas R. Hofstadter First published in 1984 — 1 edition

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אני לולאה מוזרה

by Douglas R. Hofstadter First published in 2012 — 1 edition

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A Bouquet for the Gardener: Martin Gardner Remembered

by Douglas R. Hofstadter, Martin Gardner, and Mark Burstein First published in 2011 — 1 edition

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Piano Music

by Douglas R. Hofstadter First published in 2000 — 1 edition

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Ambigrammi: un microcosmo ideale per lo studio della creatività

by Douglas R. Hofstadter First published in 1987 — 1 edition

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גדל, אשר, באך: גביש בן־אלמוות : פוגה מטפורית על נפשות ומכונות, ברוח לואיס קרול

by Douglas R. Hofstadter First published in 2011 — 1 edition

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American physicist, computer scientist and professor of cognitive science

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15. Februar 1945

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OLID: OL57437A
BookBrainz: fcc33139-9cf6-4008-a9c4-9c8bdb3be32c
GoodReads: 3034502
ISNI: 0000000108762315
Library of Congress Names: n79001579
LibraryThing: hofstadterdouglasr
SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): CFIV045783
VIAF: 19695103
Wikidata: Q319308
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D. Hofstadter
Doug Hofstadter
Douglas Richard Hofstadter
Douglas R Hofstader

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Douglas R. Hofstadter