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Kurt Gödel: Essays for his Centennial

By Charles Parsons , Solomon Feferman , Stephen G. Simpson (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0521115140, 9780521115148
LCC
QA9.2 .K87 2010
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1550593 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Logic 33
Pages
385\385
Topic
Mathematics Logic
Library
Kolxo3
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-07-22 07:35:22

Description

Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) did groundbreaking work that transformed logic and other important aspects of our understanding of mathematics, especially his proof of the incompleteness of formalized arithmetic. This book on different aspects of his work and on subjects in which his ideas have contemporary resonance includes papers from a May 2006 symposium celebrating Gödel's centennial as well as papers from a 2004 symposium. Proof theory, set theory, philosophy of mathematics, and the editing of Gödel's writings are among the topics covered. Several chapters discuss his intellectual development and his relation to predecessors and contemporaries such as Hilbert, Carnap, and Herbrand. Others consider his views on justification in set theory in light of more recent work and contemporary echoes of his incompleteness theorems and the concept of constructible set.

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