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Douglas R. Hofstadter

Books by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Born: 1945

Nationality: United States(North America)

Gender: male

Catalog: 1 book

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

  1. 1Cover of Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language

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