Book ID: CBB142778671

Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel (2021)

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Budiansky, Stephen (Author)


W. W. Norton & Co.


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 368
Language: English

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.Stephen Budiansky’s 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 Gödel’s profound intellectual friendships, his moving relationship with his mother, his troubled yet devoted marriage, and the debilitating bouts of paranoia that ultimately took his life. It also offers an intimate portrait of the scientific and intellectual circles in prewar Vienna, a haunting account of Gödel’s and Jewish intellectuals’ flight from Austria and Germany at the start of the Second World War, and a vivid re-creation of the early days of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, where Gödel and Einstein both worked.Eloquent and insightful, Journey to the Edge of Reason is a fully realized portrait of the odd, brilliant, and tormented man who has been called the greatest logician since Aristotle, and illuminates the far-reaching implications of Gödel’s revolutionary ideas for philosophy, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and man’s place in the cosmos. 68 photographs and 3 maps

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Review Annika Kanckos (2022) Review of "Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 239-242). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Dawson, John W., Jr.
Gödel, Kurt
Feferman, Solomon
Solovay, Robert M.
Parsons, Charles D.
Tieszen, Richard L.
Concepts
Mathematics
Logic
Philosophy of mathematics
Philosophy of science
Incompleteness theorems
Philosophy
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
Ancient
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Middle and Near East
Italy
Mesopotamia
Great Britain
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