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Author Budiansky, Stephen

Title Journey to the Edge of Reason The Life of Kurt Gödel
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (367 p.)
Summary A remarkable account of the brilliant, troubled mathematician and philosopher Kurt Gödel. From his famous Incompleteness Theorem, which shook the foundations of mathematical truth, to his perilous escape from Nazi Vienna, this book weaves together his creative genius, mental illness, and idealism in the face of adversity
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject G̈odel, Kurt
SUBJECT Gödel, Kurt fast
Subject Logicians -- United States -- Biography
Logicians -- Austria -- Biography
Mathematicians -- United States -- Biography
Mathematicians -- Austria -- Biography
Gödel's theorem.
Mathematics -- Philosophy.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Gödel's theorem
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
Logicians
Mathematicians
Mathematics -- Philosophy
Austria
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780192636133
0192636138
9780192636126
019263612X