Hofstadter — may refer to:People with the surname Hofstadter: * Douglas Hofstadter (born 1945), American professor, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach * Robert Hofstadter (1915–1990), American Nobel Prize winner in physics * Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970),… … Wikipedia
Hofstadter — [ hɔfstætə], 1) Douglas, amerikanischer Computerwissenschaftler und Wissenschaftsjournalist, * New York 15. 2. 1945, Sohn von 2); seit 1984 Professor für Cognitive Science an der University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Hofstadter errang mit… … Universal-Lexikon
Hofstadter — Hofstadter, Robert … Enciclopedia Universal
Hofstadter — [häf′stat΄ər] Richard 1916 70; U.S. historian … English World dictionary
Hofstädter — Lina Elfi Hofstädter (* 1954 in Lustenau) ist eine österreichische Schriftstellerin. Leben Lina Hofstädter wurde in Lustenau in Vorarlberg geboren und studierte Anglistik und Germanistik. Heute lebt sie als AHS Lehrerin und Schriftstellerin in… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Hofstadter — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Patronyme Douglas Hofstadter (1945 ), universitaire américain, fils de Robert ; Leonard Hofstadter, personnage de The Big Bang Theory, une série… … Wikipédia en Français
Hofstadter's butterfly — refers to a fractal discovered by Douglas Hofstadter in his paper Energy levels and wavefunctions of Bloch electrons in rational and irrational magnetic fields. Hofstadter s Butterfly was the first fractal to be formulated in physics.It gives a… … Wikipedia
HOFSTADTER, ROBERT — (1915–1990), U.S. physicist and Nobel Prize winner. Born in New York, Hofstadter earned his master s and doctorate degrees at Princeton; he also taught there and at City College, New York, where he had taken his B.S. degree. During World War II… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Hofstadter's law — is a self referencing time related adage, coined by Douglas Hofstadter and named by himself.Hofstadter s Law was a part of Douglas Hofstadter s 1979 magnum opus . It is often cited among programmers, especially in discussions of techniques to… … Wikipedia
HOFSTADTER, RICHARD — (1916–1970), U.S. historian. Hofstadter was born in Buffalo, New York. After teaching at the University of Maryland he joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1946 and was named professor in 1952. His American Political Tradition and the Men … Encyclopedia of Judaism
