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    Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American cognitive and computer scientist whose research includes concepts such as the sense...
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  • Hofstadter's law is a self-referential adage, coined by Douglas Hofstadter in his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979) to describe...
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    Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, also known as GEB, is a 1979 book by Douglas Hofstadter. By exploring common themes in the lives and works of logician Kurt...
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  • proposed and extensively discussed by Douglas Hofstadter in Gödel, Escher, Bach, and is further elaborated in Hofstadter's book I Am a Strange Loop, published...
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    they can often be interpreted as visual puns. The term was coined by Douglas Hofstadter in 1983–1984. Most often, ambigrams appear as visually symmetrical...
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  • Hofstadter is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Albert Hofstadter (1910–1989), American philosopher Douglas Hofstadter (born 1945), American...
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    Robert Hofstadter (February 5, 1915 – November 17, 1990) was an American physicist. He was the joint winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together...
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  • I Am a Strange Loop (category Books by Douglas Hofstadter)
    I Am a Strange Loop is a 2007 book by Douglas Hofstadter, examining in depth the concept of a strange loop to explain the sense of "I". The concept of...
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  • Le Ton beau de Marot (category Books by Douglas Hofstadter)
    beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language is a 1997 book by Douglas Hofstadter in which he explores the meaning, strengths, failings and beauty of...
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    work of Douglas Hofstadter and is one of the early examples of modern scientific data visualization. The name reflects the fact that, as Hofstadter wrote...
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