Rebecca Goldstein is a MacArthur Fellow, a professor of philosophy, and the author of five novels and a collection of short stories. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel (Great Discoveries)
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9780393242454
- Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
- Publication date: 08/05/2013
- Series: Great Discoveries
- Sold by: Barnes & Noble
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 224
- Sales rank: 348,396
- File size: 1 MB
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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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