Gödel's Proof by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman, Douglas R. Hofstadter

129 pages first pub 1958 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics philosophy science informative slow-paced

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In 1931 Kurt Gödel published his fundamental paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems." This revolutionary paper challenged certain basic assumptions underlying much research in mathematics and logi...

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