Incompleteness, Rebecca Goldstein
Incompleteness, Rebecca Goldstein
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Incompleteness
The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel

Author: Rebecca Goldstein

Narrator: Tom Perkins

Unabridged: 8 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/26/2022

Synopsis

"A gem . . . An unforgettable account of one of the great moments in the history of human thought." —Steven Pinker

Probing the life and work of Kurt Gödel, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning—and brought him to the edge of madness.

About Rebecca Goldstein

Rebecca Goldstein received her doctorate in philosophy from Princeton University. Her award-winning books include the novels The Mind-Body Problem, Properties of Light, and 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction and nonfiction studies of Kurt Godel and Baruch Spinoza. She has received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, has been designated a Humanist of the Year and a Freethought Heroine, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2015. She lives in Massachusetts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nelson on April 08, 2020

Kurt Gödel foi uma das mentes brilhantes da ciência do século XX, existindo quem o compare a Aristóteles, a Einstein ou Heisenberg, mas ao contrário destes, e apesar do seu inabalável contributo, nunca conseguiu alcançar o mesmo patamar de respeitabilidade pública. Rebecca Goldstein procura neste li......more

Goodreads review by Collin on May 16, 2015

"Incompleteness" is less about Gödel's actual incompleteness theorems -- the proofs and their specific mathematical legacy -- than it is about the philosophical environment those theorems were developed in. Put another way, this is a book less about Gödel and more about Gödel and Wittgenstein, or pe......more

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