Douglas Hofstadter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Douglas Hofstadter

American professor of cognitive science

Date of Birth: 15-Feb-1945

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: writer, computer scientist, physicist, university teacher, philosopher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American professor of cognitive science whose research focuses on the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics.
Hofstadter's book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, first published in 1979, won both the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and a National Book Award (at that time called The American Book Award) for Science.
His 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.