Who was the inspiration behind Hofstadter's book "I Am a Strange Loop"?
Albert Einstein
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Kurt Gödel
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Answer
The inspiration behind Hofstadter's book "I Am a Strange Loop" was Kurt Gödel. Gödel was an Austrian-American logician and mathematician who is best known for his incompleteness theorems. Hofstadter was interested in Gödel's work because it showed that there are limits to what mathematics can prove. Hofstadter also found Gödel's personality and life story to be fascinating.
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