Hofstadter's butterfly represents the principal finding of a seminal 1976 paper by Douglas Hofstadter. In this work, he ...

Douglas Hofstadter is a professor of cognitive science and comparative literature at Indiana University at Bloomington. He is the author of, among other books, Gödel, Escher, Bach and Fluid ...

Recently I stumbled across an essay by Douglas Hofstadter that made me happy. Hofstadter is an eminent cognitive scientist and the author of books like “Gödel, Escher, Bach” and “I Am a ...

Almost 50 years ago, computer scientist Douglas Hofstadter predicted that a butterfly would spread its wings in the quantum world. Under the right conditions, tiny electrons in a quantum system ...

It has been 62 years since Richard Hofstadter published “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life,” and his conclusions have been validated continuously ever since, never more so than hearing ...

"Hofstadter's butterfly is also a rare example of a problem that is solved exactly in quantum mechanics, without any approximations," said Kevin Nuckolls, the co-lead author of the paper that ...