Godel's Theorem in Focus (Philosophers in Focus)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: February 22, 1990
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780415045759
First sentence: The lives of great thinkers are sometimes overshadowed by their achievements - a phenomenon perhaps no better exemplified than by the life and work of Kurt Godel, a reclusive genius whose incompleteness theorems and set-theoretic consistency proofs are among the most celebrated results of twentieth-century mathematics, yet whose life history has until recently remained almost unknown.