Kurt Gödel The Genius of Metamathematics / by William D. Brewer.

Kurt Gödel The Genius of Metamathematics /

During his lifetime, Kurt Gödel was not well known outside the professional world of mathematicians, philosophers and theoretical physicists. Early in his career, for his doctoral thesis and then for his Habilitation (Dr.Sci.), he wrote earthshaking articles on the completeness and provability of ma...

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Main Author: Brewer, William D. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.
Edition:1st ed. 2022.
Series:Springer biographies.
Subjects:
Mathematics.
History.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Physicists—Biography.
Astronomers—Biography.
Science—History.
Philosophy—History.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Prologue
  • La Belle Époque in Brünn. Beginnings
  • School Days. A New Nation
  • Moving to the Capital. Student Life in 1920’s Vienna
  • The Wiener Kreis and the Mathematical Colloquium. Graduate work
  • Private Life in Vienna
  • Gödel’s Doctoral Thesis. The Incompleteness Theorems
  • The Mathematician in Vienna. Habilitation
  • Matters of Health
  • A Sojourn Abroad: 1933/34 – Princeton
  • Back to Vienna. The First Breakdown
  • ‘Commuting’ between Vienna and Princeton – The Late 1930’s. Marriage
  • The Continuum Hypothesis
  • Professional Uncertainty. A Long Journey Eastwards
  • Princeton and the IAS – Philosophy, Einstein and von Neumann. A Bizarre Birthday Present: Gödel‘s Universe
  • Reception, Recognition, Honors. Einstein’s Loss. The Professor at Princeton
  • The 1960’s: Fame and Seclusion
  • Later Years. Philosophy, Cosmology, Logic, Computability
  • Gödel’s Legacy – The Lessons of an Unusual Life
  • Epilogue. .

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