Incompleteness
The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
Published on 5. August 2013
224 pages
978-0-393-24245-4 (ISBN)
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"A gem...An unforgettable account of one of the great moments in the history of human thought." —Steven Pinker
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.
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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.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- I A Platonist among the Positivists
- II Hilbert and the Formalists
- III The Proof of Incompleteness
- IV Gödel's Incompleteness
- Notes
- Suggested Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Praise
- Copyright
- Other Works
- By Rebecca Goldstein
