Annal:1980 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
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Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1980. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
- 1980 NBA–Science winner
- 1980 Pulitzer–Nonfiction winner
- Score: 20.3
Linking together the music of Bach, the graphic art of Escher and the mathematical theorems of Godel, as well as ideas drawn from logic, biology, psyhcology, physics and linguistics, Hofstadter illumnintaes one of the greatest mysteries of modern science: the nature of the human thought process.
