Journey to the Edge of Reason The Life of Kurt Gödel
eAudio - 2021
The first major biography of the logician and mathematician whose incompleteness theorems helped launch a modern scientific revolution. Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true-yet never provable-continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein, with whom he formed a warm and abiding friendship, Gödel has long escaped all but the most casual scrutiny of his life. An intimate portrait of the scientific and intellectual circles in prewar Vienna and a vivid re-creation of the early days of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, Journey to the Edge of Reason is the first biography to fully ...draw upon Gödel's voluminous letters and writings-including a never-before-transcribed shorthand diary of his most intimate thoughts-to explore his profound intellectual friendships, his moving relationship with his mother, his troubled yet devoted...
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Tantor Media, Inc.
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- English
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- Overdrive Resource Page
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- MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
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File Size | 256 GB |
Parts | 10 |
ISBN | 9781666104097 |
Release Date | 5/11/2021 |
OverDrive Listen audiobook | |
File Size | 256 GB |
ISBN | 9781666104097 |
Release Date | 5/11/2021 |