Hofstadter

Hofstadter

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), American historian

Other:
* Hofstadter's law, "It always takes longer than you expect ..."
* Hofstadter-Moebius loop, a fictional condition that affected HAL 9000, a fictional computer
* Hofstadter's butterfly, a fractal


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