Douglas Hofstadter
Douglas Richard Hofstadter is an American professor of cognitive science whose research focuses on the sense of I, consciousness, analogymaking, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. He is best known for his book Gdel, Escher, Bach An Eternal Golden Braid, first published in 1979. It 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.
Hofstadter was born in New York City, the son of Nobel Prizewinning physicist Robert Hofstadter. He grew up on the campus of Stanford University, where his father was a professor, and he attended the International School of Geneva in 19581959. He graduated with Distinction in Mathematics from Stanford University in 1965. He continued his education and received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Oregon in 1975, where his study of the energy levels of Bloch electrons in a magnetic field led to his discovery of the fractal known as the Hofstadter butterfly.
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