- Intellect, Self (Philosophy), Science, Philosophy
Toen 'Godel, Escher, Bach' verscheen in 1979 was Hofstadter in een klap wereldberoemd. Het is maar weinigen gegeven zo met taal en kennis te spelen: briljant, erudiet, creatief, humoristisch, en didaktisch van zeer hoog niveau.
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Spare, warm, cool and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Douglas R. Hofstadter
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 852
- Publisher
- Dtv, Penguin Books India, Viking
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- German, und, English, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9789992925829
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“I never expected to be writing a column for Scientific American.”
Douglas Hofstadter is an American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. His 1979 book *Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid* won both 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.—*Wikipedia* 2021-03-03
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