Douglas Hofstadter

Hofstadter is passionate about languages. Cœur de la pensée in February 2013 to be publiDouglas Hofstadterd in English in April 2013)


Papers
Hofstadter has written among many others the following papers:
"Energy levels and wave functions of Bloch electrons in rational and irrational magnetic fields" Phys. Hofstadter has translated many other poems too (always respecting their formal constraints) and two novels (in prose): La Chamade (That Mad Ache) by French writer Françoise Sagan and La Scoperta dell'Alba (The Discovery of Dawn) by Walter Veltroni the then head of the Partito Democratico in Italy.

His 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology. 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 publiDouglas Hofstadterd in 1979.