Egbert B. Gebstadter is a fictional author who appears in the indexes of books written by an American professor who was born in what year?
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Egbert B. Gebstadter Egbert B. Gebstadter is a fictional author who appears in the indexes (and sometimes in the text) of books by Douglas R. Hofstadter. For each Hofstadter book, there is a corresponding Gebstadter book. His name is derived from "GEB", the abbreviation for Hofstadter's first book "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid"; the letters appear in his last name, permuted in his first name, and permuted again in his initials.
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Douglas Hofstadter Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American professor of cognitive science whose research focuses on the sense of "I" (sense of self in relation to the external world), consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. Hofstadter's book "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", first published in 1979, won both the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction
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Deborah Eisenberg Deborah Eisenberg (born November 20, 1945) is an American short-story writer, actress and teacher. She is a professor of writing at Columbia University.
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Hans Albert Einstein Hans Albert Einstein ( ; May 14, 1904 – July 26, 1973) was a Swiss-American engineer and educator, the second child and first son of Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić. Hans A. Einstein was a professor of Hydraulic Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and was recognized for his research on sediment transport. His papers are held at the Water Resources Collections and Archives in the University of California, Riverside Libraries and in the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections and Archives.
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Albert Goldman Albert Harry Goldman (April 15, 1927 – March 28, 1994) was an American professor and author.
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Yuri Slezkine Yuri Lvovich Slezkine (Russian: Юрий Львович Слёзкин; born February 7, 1956) is a Russian-born American historian, writer, and translator. He is a professor of Russian history and Director of the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known as the author of the book "The Jewish Century" (2004).
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Howard Mumford Jones Howard Mumford Jones (April 16, 1892 – May 11, 1980) was an American intellectual historian, literary critic, journalist, poet, and professor of English at Harvard University.
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Steven E. Woodworth Steven E. Woodworth (born January 28, 1961) is an American historian specializing in studies of the American Civil War. He has written numerous books concerning the Civil War, and as a professor has taught classes on the Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, and military history.
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Lew Rockwell Llewellyn Harrison "Lew" Rockwell Jr. (born July 1, 1944) is an American author, editor, and political consultant. A libertarian and a self-professed anarcho-capitalist, he founded (and is chairman of) the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a non-profit dedicated to promoting the Austrian School of economics. He also started a website in 1999, LewRockwell.com, that features articles and blog entries by a number of right-wing libertarian columnists and writers.
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John Boardman (physicist) Jack Melton Boardman, commonly known as John Boardman, (born September 8, 1932) is an American physicist. He is a former professor of physics at Brooklyn College; a noted science fiction fan, author and fanzine publisher; and a gaming authority.
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John R. Klauder John Rider Klauder (born January 24, 1932) is an American professor of physics and mathematics and author of over 250 published articles on physics.
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Heinz Pagels Heinz Rudolf Pagels (February 19, 1939 – July 23, 1988) was an American physicist, an adjunct professor of physics at Rockefeller University, the executive director and chief executive officer of the New York Academy of Sciences, and president of the International League for Human Rights. He wrote the popular science books "The Cosmic Code" (1982), "Perfect Symmetry" (1985), and "" (1988).
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Everett Hall Everett Wesley Hall (April 24, 1901 – June 17, 1960) was an American philosopher, known for his advocacy of common-sense realism and his notion of what he called the "categorial" primacy of certain assertions. Hall received his A.B. and M.A. degrees from Lawrence College, and his Ph.D. from Cornell University (in 1929). Between 1929 and his death in 1960, he taught at the following universities: the University of Chicago, Ohio State, Stanford, the University of Iowa, and the University of North Carolina (he was Department Chairman at the last two schools and was Kenan Professor at North Carolina). He also held visiting appointments at Northwestern University, the University of Southern California, and Kyoto University. Hall was the author of four books as well as numerous papers. The books are "What is Value" (1952), "Modern Science and Human Values"(1956), "Philosophical Systems"(1960), and "Our Knowledge of Fact and Value" (1961). After his death a number of his papers were collected by his colleague, E. M. Adams and published as "Categorial Analysis" (1964).
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Charles Liebman Charles S. Liebman (Hebrew: ישעיהו ליבמן) (October 20, 1934 – September 3, 2003) was a political scientist and prolific author on Jewish life and Israel. A professor at Bar-Ilan University, he previously served on university faculties in the United States.
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Bill Bryson William McGuire "Bill" Bryson {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; born December 8, 1951) is a best-selling Anglo-American author of books on travel, the English language, science, and other non-fiction topics. Born in the United States, he has been a resident of Britain for most of his adult life, returning to the United States between 1995 and 2003. He served as the chancellor of Durham University from 2005 to 2011.
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George V. Higgins George V. Higgins (November 13, 1939 – November 6, 1999) was an American author, lawyer, newspaper columnist, and college professor. He is best known for his bestselling crime novels. His full name was George Vincent Higgins II, after an uncle living in Randolph, but he dropped the numeric (unofficially) in mid life. His books were all published as by George V. Higgins.
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Robert Langbaum Robert Woodrow Langbaum (born February 23, 1924) is an American author. He is University of Virginia James Branch Cabell prof. English and Am. lit. (1967–1999), prof. emeritus (1999–today).
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Mikhail Epstein Mikhail Naumovich Epstein (Russian: Михаи́л Нау́мович Эпште́йн ; born 1950) is an Anglo-American and Russian literary theorist and critical thinker. Mikhail Epstein is S. C. Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University, USA, and Professor of Russian and Cultural Theory at Durham University, UK. He moved from the USSR (Moscow) to the USA (Atlanta) in 1990 and from the USA to England (Durham) in 2012. He is founder and director of Centre for Humanities Innovation at Durham University.
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Marvin Terban Marvin I. Terban (born April 28, 1940) is an American children's book author. Called a "master of children's wordplay" by ALA Booklist and "Mr. English for Kids" by the Children's Book-of-the-Month Club, he has written over 35 books for young readers, most of them about the English language. He is Scholastic's "Professor Grammar."
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Paul A. Gompers Paul A. Gompers is an American economist. He is the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is the co-author of three books.
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Mark Skousen Mark Andrew Skousen ( ; born October 19, 1947) is an American economist, investment analyst, newsletter editor, college professor and author.
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Paul McKee (author) Dr. Paul McKee (October 14, 1898 – November 26, 1974) was a university professor, an author of children's books, and was regarded as "one of the most eminent scholars in his field". McKee earned a doctorate at the University of Iowa before joining the faculty at the University of Northern Colorado.