Incompleteness

The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel

AvRebecca Newberger Goldstein

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

Probing the life and work of Kurt Gödel, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning—and brought him to the edge of madness.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-02-17
Mått:137 x 203 x 23 mm
Vikt:293 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Great Discoveries
Antal sidor:300
Förlag:WW Norton & Co
ISBN:9780393327601

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Naturvetenskap:allmänt inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is an award-winning philosopher, writer, and public intellectual. She is the author of ten books of acclaimed fiction and non-fiction, including 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction and Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy of science from Princeton University and has taught at Yale, Columbia, NYU, Dartmouth, and Harvard. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, her work has been supported by the MacArthur “Genius” grant and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Whiting Institute, Radcliffe Institute, and the National Science Foundation. In 2015, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

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"Gödel's torment and his genius. By the book's end, we understand well why Einstein would look forward to 'the privilege of walking home with Gödel,' and we can't help but wish that we'd been able to join them."