A remarkable account of the brilliant, troubled mathematician and philosopher Kurt GÃ del. 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 illness, and idealism in the face of adversity.
A remarkable account of the brilliant, troubled mathematician and philosopher Kurt GÃ del. 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 illness, and idealism in the face of adversity.
Stephen Budiansky is the author of eighteen books of biography, history, and science. From 1979 to 1982 he was a magazine editor and radio producer at the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C.; from 1982 to 1985 he was Washington correspondent and then Washington editor of the scientific journal Nature. He joined the staff of U.S. News & World Report, where he worked in a variety of writing and editing positions, including national security correspondent, foreign editor, and deputy editor. Since 1998 he has been a full-time author and independent scholar, and in 2011 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts as a writer of general nonfiction. His books include Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas (2019); Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union (2016); and Mad Music: Charles Ives, the Nostalgic Rebel (2014).
Inhaltsangabe
List of Maps and Illustrations Prologue 1: Dreams of an Empire 2: Alle echten Wiener sind aus Brünn 3: Vienna 1924 4: Floating in Midair 5: Undecidable Truths 6: The Scholar's Paradise 7: Fleeing the Reich 8: New Worlds 9: Plato's Shadow 10: "If the World is Constructed Rationally" Appendix: Gödel's Proof Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Photo Credits Index
List of Maps and Illustrations Prologue 1: Dreams of an Empire 2: Alle echten Wiener sind aus Brünn 3: Vienna 1924 4: Floating in Midair 5: Undecidable Truths 6: The Scholar's Paradise 7: Fleeing the Reich 8: New Worlds 9: Plato's Shadow 10: "If the World is Constructed Rationally" Appendix: Gödel's Proof Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Photo Credits Index
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