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Douglas HOFSTADTER
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| Job Title |
| College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Cognitive Science, Indiana University. |
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| Biography |
| Son of the American physicist Robert Hofstadter, who was known for his fundamental work in high-energy physics. Douglas Robert Hofstadter was born in New York, Feb. 15, 1945. |
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| Field of Study |
| Professor Hofstadter received his B.S. in mathematics from Stanford University (1965), and his M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Oregon (1972, 1975). His Pulitzer-prize-winning book Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (1979 ) has had considerable impact on people in many disciplines, ranging from philosophy to mathematics to artificial intelligence, to music, and beyond. He also studies and writes about cognitive phenomena in a number of other areas. Among the most important of Professor Hofstadter's recent explorations is the geometry of the triangle and the complex interrelationships between a triangle's many centers, central circles, central lines, and so forth. |
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