Douglas R. Hofstadter
Born 15 February 1945
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
Quotes
“Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.”
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid “The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.”
Chapter 8 “No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on some kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.”
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid “If the meanings of true and false were switched, this sentence wouldn't be false.”
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Books by Douglas R. Hofstadter in order
Books by Douglas R. Hofstadter in the order they were published, from The Mind's I (1962) to A Bouquet for the Gardener (2011).
- 1The Mind's I
The Mind's I1962 - 2Gödel, Escher, Bach
Gödel, Escher, Bach1979 - 3Metafont, Metamathematics, and Metaphysics
Metafont, Metamathematics, and Metaphysics1982 - 4Shakespeare's Plays Weren't Written by Him, but by Someone EShakespeare's Plays Weren't Written by Him, but by Someone Else of the Same Name1982
- 5The Tumult of Inner Voices or What Is the Meaning of the Wor
The Tumult of Inner Voices or What Is the Meaning of the Word 'I'?1982 - 6Metamagical Themas
Metamagical Themas1985 - 7Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies
Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies1995 - 8Rhapsody on a theme by Clément MarotRhapsody on a theme by Clément Marot1995
- 9Le Ton beau de Marot
Le Ton beau de Marot1997 - 10Piano MusicPiano Music2000
- 11I Am a Strange Loop
I Am a Strange Loop2007 - 12A Bouquet for the Gardener
A Bouquet for the Gardener2011