Richard Sprague

Douglas Hofstadter

I'm so envious of Sean, who went to the lecture by Douglas Hofstadter at Stanford on Monday. I read that book in high school and remember attending the author's signing ceremony on one of my very first days at Stanford.
Cover of Godel, Escher, Bach showing letters casting shadows, for a post on the book's author
His father, a Nobel Prize-winner, taught my freshman physics class. I wonder what that family talks about at Thanksgiving dinners.
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