num_pages: 224
description: Kurt GÃ¶ 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 GÃ¶'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 GÃ¶'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 GÃ¶'s contributions to mathematics, philosophy, computer science, artificial intelligence -- even cosmology -- in an entertaining and accessible way.
language: English
title: Gödel: A Life of Logic
titlecomplete: Gödel: A Life of Logic
genres: History, Biography, Science, Philosophy, Mathematics, Physics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 157
publisher: Basic Books