Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel by Stephen Budiansky

Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel

Stephen Budiansky

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nonfiction autobiography biography historical science technology informative medium-paced

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Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt G del'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 Ein...

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