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The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel
Rebecca Goldstein
ISBN: 9780393327601
Format: Paperback
Publisher:WW Norton & Co
Edition: illustrated edition
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Considered the 20th century's greatest mathematician, Kurt Godel is the subject of this lucid and accessible study, which explains the significance of his theorems and the remarkable vision behind them, while bringing this eccentric, tortured genius and his world to life.
Probing the life and work of Kurt Godel, " Incompleteness" indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning and brought him to the edge of madness.
| ISBN | 0393327604 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780393327601
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 228 | | Publisher | WW Norton & Co | | Published in | New York | | Imprint | WW Norton & Co | | Series title | Great Discoveries (Paperback) | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 137 | | Publication date | 28 Feb 2006 | | Width (mm) | 203 | | DEWEY | 510.92 | | Spine width (mm) | 19 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | Pages | 224 | |
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"Magnificent.... A stimulating exploration of both the power and the limitations of the human intellect.... Goldstein is an excellent choice for this installment of Norton's Great Discoveries series: Her philosophical background makes her a sure guide to the underlying ideas, and she brings a novelistic depth of character and atmosphere ... to her sympathetic depiction of the logician's tortured psyche, as his relentless search for logical patterns ... gradually darkened into paranoia."  Be the first to write a customer review
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