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Douglas Hofstadter, an Uncommon card
Douglas Richard Hofstadter is an American cognitive and computer scientist whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, strange loops, ambigrams, artificial intelligence, and discovery in mathematics and physics.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 80
- Power
- 155
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 140,000
Power 155 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Douglas Hofstadter quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Douglas Hofstadter card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
His 2007 book I Am a ______ Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.
Answer
Strange. His 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology. From the Douglas Hofstadter article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
His ____ book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, and a National Book Award for Science.
Answer
1970s. His 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, and a National Book Award for Science. From the Douglas Hofstadter article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Baroque architecture. Baroque architecture 81 · Peter Schiff 78 · Douglas Hofstadter 75 · Aspasia 70 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- His 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, and a National Book Award for Science.
- His 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Douglas Hofstadter article was read about 140,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 80: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Douglas Hofstadter (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : "null0", CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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