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Author photo. Photo credit: Maurizio Codogno, Bologna, Italy, March 6, 2002

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Douglas R. Hofstadter

Author of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Includes the names: Doug Hofstadter, D.R. Hofstadter, Hofstadter Doug, Hofsteder Douglas, Douglas Hofstader, Hofstadter Douglas, Douglas Hofstadter, Douglas R. Hostadter, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Douglas R. Hofstadter ... (see complete list), Douglas A. Hofstadter, R. Douglas Hofstadter, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Douglas R. Hofstaedter, R. Douglas Hoffstadter, Douglas R. Horfstadter, Hofstadter. Douglas R.:, Douglas Richard Hofstadter, דאגלס ר הופשטטר, Douglas R. Hofstadter, editor, Дуглас Хофштадтер, Даглас Хофштадтер, Даглас Р Хофштадтер, ダグラス・R・ホフスタッター

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Douglas Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Cognitive Science at Indiana University — biography from I Am a Strange Loop
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Works by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid 13,271 copies, 125 reviews
The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (Editor) 2,747 copies, 22 reviews
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern 2,482 copies, 16 reviews
I Am a Strange Loop 2,453 copies, 44 reviews
Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language 906 copies, 13 reviews
Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental… 791 copies, 4 reviews
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking 474 copies, 9 reviews
That Mad Ache: A Novel / Translator, Trader: An Essay (Author) 45 copies, 1 review
That Mad Ache: A Novel (Author) 41 copies, 1 review
The Tumult of Inner Voices or What Is the Meaning of the Word 'I'? (Grace… 11 copies
Jason Salavon: Brainstem Still Life 11 copies
Ambigrammi: Un microcosmo ideale per lo studio della creativita (Italian… 8 copies
Rhapsody on a theme by Clément Marot: The Grace A. Tanner lecture in… 5 copies
"Shakespeare's plays weren't written by him, but by someone else of the… 3 copies
Understanding Understanding 3 copies
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Also by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Eugene Onegin (Translator, some editions) 4,340 copies, 65 reviews
Gödel’s Proof (Foreword, some editions) 1,376 copies, 14 reviews
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing (Contributor) 785 copies, 6 reviews
Masters of Deception: Escher, Dalí & the Artists of Optical Illusion (Foreword) 545 copies, 12 reviews
The Best American Science Writing 2000 (Contributor) 164 copies
Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder (Contributor) 123 copies, 1 review
The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science (Contributor) 48 copies
Alan Turing: His Work and Impact (Contributor) 34 copies
Analogy-Making as Perception: A Computer Model (Afterword) 28 copies
Mind and Consciousness: 5 Questions (Contributor) 10 copies
A Bouquet for the Gardener: Martin Gardner Remembered (Contributor) 10 copies
Butterfly in the quantum world - the story of the most fascinating quantum (Contributor) 4 copies
Le débat 47 (novembre/decembre 1987). Une Nouvelle science de l'esprit (Contributor) 1 copy
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Hofstadter, Douglas Richard
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1945-02-15
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New York, New York, USA
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New York, New York, USA
Education
Stanford University (BS | Mathematics | 1965)
University of Oregon (MS | Physics | 1972)
University of Oregon (PhD | Physics | 1975)
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professor ( [1977])
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Indiana University
University of Michigan
Scientific American
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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George Pólya Award (1983)
American Book Award (Science ∙ 1980)
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