Godel, Escher, Bach

A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll

Douglas R. Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he also directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition. He is the author or co-author of nine books, including I Am a Strange Loop and Surfaces and Essences , and has contributed to ten more. He lives in Bloomington.