A remarkable account of the brilliant, troubled mathematician and philosopher Kurt Gödel. From his famous Incompleteness Theorem, which shook the foundations of mathematical truth, to his perilous escape from Nazi Vienna, this book weaves together his creative genius, mental ill…
Kurt Gödel: Wahrheit & Beweisbarkeit
Kurt Gödel: Wahrheit & Beweisbarkeit
L'étude des notes du mathématicien Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) montre qu'il croyait à l'existence des anges et du diable, parmi d'autres idées étranges. Il tenta de constituer ces idées en un système logique cohérent. Cette analyse, présentée sous forme de courtes fictions, éclaire d…
Gödel remembered: Gödel-Symposium in Salzburg : 10-12 July 1983
by Weingartner, Paul, Institut für Wissenschaftstheorie (Salzburg, Austria), Gödel-Symposium in Salzburg, Gödel, R., (Rudolf), Schmetterer, Leopold, Gödel, Kurt, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
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"This is an exciting if not rambling account of events of Raymond Smullyan's four lives -- as a mathematical logician, musician, magician, and author -- together with thoughts that come to his mind as he recalls them. This book includes topics from some of Smullyan's twenty-six …