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Cargando... Gödel: A Life of Logic, the Mind, and Mathematicspor John L. Casti
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. 7/7/22 It took me a long time to get through this and I think the effort was worth it, but the style was heavy going on many occasions. This is alluded to in the introduction, which suggests that the original German text was even less populist. It was informative about Godel and his background but less so than I had hoped, and did not cover his mathematics in as much depth as I would have liked. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Kurt Gödel 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 Gödel'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 Gödel'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 Gödel's contributions to mathematics, philosophy, computer science, artificial intelligence--even cosmology--in an entertaining and accessible way. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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