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A Life Of Logic, The Mind, And Mathematics

By: John Casti, Werner DePauli

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Paperback | 1 September 2001 | Edition Number 1

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Kurt G was an intellectual giant. His Incompleteness Theorem turned not only mathematics but also the whole world of science and philosophy on its head. Equally legendary were G 's eccentricities, his close friendship with Albert Einstein, and his paranoid fear of germs that eventually led to his death from self-starvation. Now, in the first popular biography of this strange and brilliant thinker, John Casti and Werner DePauli bring the legend to life. After describing his childhood in the Moravian capital of Brno, the authors trace the arc of G 's remarkable career, from the famed Vienna Circle, where philosophers and scientists debated notions of truth, to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where he lived and worked until his death in 1978. In the process, they shed light on G 's contributions to mathematics, philosophy, computer science, artificial intelligence -- even cosmology -- in an entertaining and accessible way.

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Non-Fiction Biographies & True Stories Biographies Science, Technology & Medicine Biographies Mathematics History of Mathematics Science Science in General History of Science Philosophy History of Western Philosophy Mathematical Foundation

Mathematical Logic

Preface	p. vii
Since Aristotle	p. 1
Forever Incomplete	p. 13
The Undecidable	p. 39
Young Godel	p. 53
Life in Princeton	p. 75
Mechanism and Mathematics	p. 95
Thinking Machines and the Logic of Incompleteness	p. 119
Time and Time Again	p. 149
The Complexity of Complexity	p. 163
Window on the Soul	p. 191
References	p. 197
Index	p. 201
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