(USA, 1945)
He studied mathematics at Stanford and physics at the University of Oregon. He was a professor of cognitive sciences at the University of Michigan until 1988 and currently at Indiana University, where he also directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition. His work “Gödel, Escher, Bach” (1979) received the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 1980 and the American Book Award of the same year. Hofstadter has also published “The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul” (1981), in collaboration with the philosopher Daniel C. Dennett, and “Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern” (1985), among other works, as well as an English translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.
