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

4.0

When I first started reading this book I thought it was basically going to be a biography of Godel, but it's much better than that. It discusses his proofs, but also why they were so important, especially in the context of other scientific, mathematical, and philosophical thought of the time. The author does write a little bit about his personal life, mostly his later years, which is also quite interesting. I really wish, however, that she had gone into more detail about the actual content of his proofs. I guess the book is designed to be accessible to a non-mathematician so I will have to go elsewhere for the really technical bits. I can say she made me really want to read/study his actual proof.