더글러스 호프스태터

소개

더글러스 리처드 호프스태터(Douglas Richard Hofstadter, 1945년 2월 15일 ~ )는 미국의 인지과학자이다. 퓰리처상 논픽션 부문을 수상한 《괴델, 에셔, 바흐: 영원한 황금 노끈》의 작가로 유명하다.

Douglas Richard Hofstadter is an American cognitive and computer scientist whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, strange loops, ambigrams, artificial intelligence, and discovery in mathematics and physics. His 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, and a National Book Award for Science. His 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.