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Author Goldstein, Rebecca, 1950-

Title Incompleteness : the proof and paradox of Kurt Gödel / Rebecca Goldstein.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton, [2005]
©2005

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  QA29.G58 G65 2005    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description 296 pages ; 21 cm.
Series Great discoveries
Great discoveries.
Summary "An introduction to the life and thought of Kurt Gödel, who transformed our conception of math forever"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280) and index.
Contents A Platonist among the positivists -- Hilbert and the formalists -- The proof of incompleteness -- Gödel's incompleteness.
Subject Gödel, Kurt.
Gödel, Kurt.
Logicians -- United States -- Biography.
Logicians.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Logicians -- Austria -- Biography.
Austria.
Proof theory.
Proof theory.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 0393051692