Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel by Rebecca Goldstein

Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel

Great Discoveries

Rebecca Goldstein

296 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography mathematics philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Probing the life and work of Kurt G del, 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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