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Reflections on Kurt Gödel

By Hao Wang

Book information

Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
1990
ISBN
0262730871, 9780262730877
Open Library ID
OL9508068M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2177596 bytes)
Pages
350\350
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Kurt G?del was indisputably one of the greatest thinkers of our time, and in this first extended treatment of his life and work, Hao Wang, who was in close contact with G?del in his last years, brings out the full subtlety of G?del's ideas and their connection with grand themes in the history of mathematics and philosophy. The subjects he covers include the completeness of elementary logic, the limits of formalization, the problem of evidence, the concept of set, the philosophy of mathematics, time and relativity theory, metaphysics and religion, as well as general ideas on philosophy as a worldview. Hao Wang is Professor of Logic at the Rockefeller University.

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