Douglas Hofstadter

Biography

The son of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Hofstadter, he received his Ph.D in Physics from the University of Oregon in 1975. As of 2005, he is a College Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science; Adjunct Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and Psychology at Indiana University at Bloomington, where he directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition.

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Nobel Prize - Robert Hofstadter - Ph.D - Physics - University of Oregon - 1975 - As of 2005 - Indiana University at Bloomington

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Hofstadter is multilingual; he spent a few years in Sweden in the mid-1960s, where he learned Swedish. In addition, he speaks (besides English) Italian, French, German; his knowledge of these languages can be partly attributed to having spent a year of his youth in Geneva. He also speaks some Russian (he translated parts of GEB into Russian). In Le Ton beau de Marot (written in memory of his late wife Carol) he describes himself as a "pilingual" (conversant in 3.14159 languages) and an "oligoglot" (speaker of few languages).

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Multilingual - Sweden - 1960s - Swedish - English - Italian - French - German - Geneva - Russian - Pi - Oligoglot

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His interests include themes of the mind, creativity, consciousness, self-reference, translation, and mathematical games.

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Consciousness - Self-reference - Translation - Mathematical game

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