Douglas R. Hofstadter

30 books

Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges

Alan Turing: The Enigma

Andrew Hodges

608 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction biography computer science lgbtqia+ mathematics informative medium-paced
Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science by Douglas R. Hofstadter, Karl Sigmund

Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science

Douglas R. Hofstadter, Karl Sigmund

480 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy science informative medium-paced
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies

Douglas R. Hofstadter

528 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy psychology science informative reflective medium-paced
Gödel's Proof by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman, Douglas R. Hofstadter

Gödel's Proof

Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman, Douglas R. Hofstadter

129 pages • first pub 1958 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics philosophy science informative slow-paced
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas R. Hofstadter

777 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics philosophy science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter

I Am a Strange Loop

Douglas R. Hofstadter

412 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy psychology science reflective slow-paced
Jinn from Hyperspace & Other Scribblings both Serious & Whimsical by Martin Gardner

Jinn from Hyperspace & Other Scribblings both Serious & Whimsical

Martin Gardner

307 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics adventurous medium-paced
King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry by Siobhan Roberts

King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry

Siobhan Roberts

320 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography mathematics science informative slow-paced
Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language

Douglas R. Hofstadter

632 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali, and the Artists of Optical Illusion by Al Seckel, Douglas R. Hofstadter

Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali, and the Artists of Optical Illusion

Al Seckel, Douglas R. Hofstadter

320 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction art reference informative medium-paced