Incompleteness : the proof and paradox of Kurt Gödel / Rebecca Goldstein.
2005
QA29.G58 G65 2005 (Mapit)
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Title
Incompleteness : the proof and paradox of Kurt Gödel / Rebecca Goldstein.
Author
Goldstein, Rebecca, 1950-
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0393327604 (pbk.)
9780393327601 (pbk.)
0393051692
9780393051698
9780393327601 (pbk.)
0393051692
9780393051698
Imprint
New York : W.W. Norton, c2005.
Language
English
Description
296 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
QA29.G58 G65 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification
510/.92 B
Summary
"An introduction to the life and thought of Kurt Gödel, who transformed our conception of math forever"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-280) and index.
Series
Great discoveries
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Table of Contents
A Platonist among the positivists
Hilbert and the formalists
The proof of incompleteness
Gödel's incompleteness.
Hilbert and the formalists
The proof of incompleteness
Gödel's incompleteness.