Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Hofstadter is a professor of cognitive science and comparative literature at Indiana University. His first book, Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid , won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. He is known for his writings on minds and machines, analogy, and translation.

Douglas Hofstadter is a professor of cognitive science and comparative literature at Indiana University. His first book, Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid , won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. He is known for his writings on minds and machines, analogy, and translation. See less