Douglas Hofstadter

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid és un llibre de Douglas Hofstadter, guanyador del Premi Pulitzer publicat el 1979 per l'editorial Basic Books. El llibre tracta de com es relacionen les idees i obres del lògic Kurt Gödel, l'artista Maurits Cornelis Escher i el compositor Johann Sebastian Bach. Com l'autor …

Metamagical Themas is an eclectic collection of articles that Douglas Hofstadter wrote for the popular science magazine Scientific American during the early 1980s. The anthology was published in 1985 by Basic Books. The volume is substantial in size and contains extensive notes concerning responses to the articles and …

I am a strange loop és un llibre publicat el 2007 per Douglas Hofstadter, examinant en profunditat el concepte de bucle estrany desenvolupat originalment el 1979 al seu llibre Gödel, Escher, Bach. Hofstadter havia expressat la seva decepció amb la forma en Gödel, Escher, Bach, que va guanyar el Premi Pulitzer el 1980 …

Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language, published by Basic Books in 1997, is a book by Douglas Hofstadter in which he explores the meaning, strengths, failings, and beauty of translation. The book is a long and detailed examination of one short translation of a minor French poem, and through that an …

Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought is a 1995 book by Douglas Hofstadter and other members of the Fluid Analogies Research Group exploring the mechanisms of intelligence through computer modeling. It contends that the notions of analogy and fluidity are …