Kurt Gödel: The Genius of Metamathematics (2022)

Kurt Gödel: The Genius of Metamathematics (2022)

By William D Brewer
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Preface.- Prologue.- La Belle Époque in Brünn. Beginnings.- School Days. A New Nation.- Moving to the Capital. Student Life in 1920's Vienna.- The Wiener Kreis and the Mathematical Colloquium. Graduate work.- Private Life in Vienna.- Gödel's Doctoral Thesis. The Incompleteness Theorems.- The Mathematician in Vienna. Habilitation.- Matters of Health.- A Sojourn Abroad: 1933/34 - Princeton.- Back to Vienna. The First Breakdown.- 'Commuting' between Vienna and Princeton - The Late 1930's. Marriage.- The Continuum Hypothesis.- Professional Uncertainty. A Long Journey Eastwards.- Princeton and the IAS - Philosophy, Einstein and von Neumann. A Bizarre Birthday Present: Gödel's Universe.- Reception, Recognition, Honors. Einstein's Loss. The Professor at Princeton.- The 1960's: Fame and Seclusion.- Later Years. Philosophy, Cosmology, Logic, Computability.- Gödel's Legacy - The Lessons of an Unusual Life.- Epilogue.


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Publish date September 09, 2022
Publisher Springer
Format Hardcover
Pages 495
ISBN 9783031113086
303111308X

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