Journey to the Edge of Reason
Subtitle: The Life of Kurt Gödel
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
Published: 2021
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781324005452
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Goedel, kurt, 1906-1978; Mathematicians, biography; Goedel's theorem; Mathematics, philosophy; Logicians; Logic, symbolic and mathematical
First sentence: Few worlds could have been further apart than the tormented darkness of Kurt Gödel’s final years and the golden security of his youth, in what in 1906 still seemed the eternal Hapsburg Empire.
Table of contents: title: Contents
pagenum: vii; title: List of Maps and Illustrations
pagenum: ix; title: Prologue
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: Dreams of an Empire
pagenum: 9; label: 2
title: Alle echten Wiener sind aus Brünn
pagenum: 39; label: 3
title: Vienna 1942
pagenum: 61; label: 4
title: Floating in Midair
pagenum: 88; label: 5
title: Undecidable Truths
pagenum: 117; label: 6
title: The Scholar’s Paradise
pagenum: 146; label: 7
title: Fleeing the Reich
pagenum: 174; label: 8
title: New Worlds
pagenum: 207; label: 9
title: Plato’s Shadow
pagenum: 236; label: 10
title: “If the World is Constructed Rationally”
pagenum: 263; title: Appendix: Gödel’s Proof
pagenum: 281; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 287; title: Notes
pagenum: 289; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 313; title: Illustration Credits
pagenum: 327; title: Index
pagenum: 329