Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Douglas R. Hofstadter is a person.
References
2016
- (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter Retrieved:2016-7-25.
- Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American professor of cognitive science whose research focuses on the sense of "I", consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. He is best known for his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, first published in 1979. It won both the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction[1] [2] and a National Book Award (at that time called The American Book Award) for Science. His 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.
- ↑ "General Nonfiction". Past winners and finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-03-17.
- ↑ A bedside book of paradoxes, New York Times
1979
- (Hofstadter, 1979) ⇒ Douglas R. Hofstadter. (1979). “Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.” In: New Society.