Mathematician:Douglas Richard Hofstadter

American mathematician and philosopher most noted for the books he has written.

In particular, famous for being the author of

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: February 15, 1945, New York

Books

 * 1979:
 * 1981: The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (co-edited with Daniel Dennett) (ISBN 0-465-03091-2 and ISBN 0-553-01412-9) (ISBN 0-553-34584-2)
 * 1985: Metamagical Themas (collection of Scientific American columns and other essays, all with postscripts) (ISBN 0-465-04566-9)
 * 1987: Ambigrammi: un microcosmo ideale per lo studio della creatività (in Italian only) (ISBN 88-7757-006-7)
 * 1995: Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies (ISBN 0-465-02475-0)
 * 1996: Rhapsody on a Theme by Clement Marot. The Grace A. Tanner Lecture in Human Values
 * 1997: Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language (ISBN 0-465-08645-4)
 * 2000: Eugene Onegin: A Novel Versification (ISBN 0-465-02094-1)
 * 2002: Gödel's Proof (revised edition) by Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman, edited by Hofstadter (ISBN 0-8147-5816-9)
 * 2007: I Am a Strange Loop (ISBN 0-465-03078-5)

Papers
Many, including:


 * 1976: Energy levels and wave functions of Bloch electrons in rational and irrational magnetic fields, Phys. Rev. B 14
 * 1982: Metafont, Metamathematics, and Metaphysics: Comments on Donald Knuth's Article 'The Concept of a Meta-Font' Scientific American (August 1982) (republished in the book Metamagical Themas)
 * 1987: A non-deterministic approach to analogy, involving the Ising model of ferromagnetism, in E. Caianiello (ed.), The Physics of Cognitive Processes. Teaneck, NJ: World Scientific.
 * 1989: To Err is Human; To Study Error-making is Cognitive Science, Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. XXVIII, No. 2
 * 1995: Speechstuff and thoughtstuff: Musings on the resonances created by words and phrases via the subliminal perception of their buried parts, in Sture Allen (ed.), Of Thoughts and Words: The Relation between Language and Mind. Proceedings of the Nobel Symposium 92, London/New Jersey: World Scientific Publ.
 * 1995: On seeing A's and seeing As, Stanford Humanities Review 4,2
 * 2001: Analogy as the Core of Cognition, in Dedre Gentner, Keith Holyoak, and Boicho Kokinov (eds.) The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press/Bradford Book