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- Title
Gödel's universe.
- Authors
Davis, Martin
- Abstract
This article presents information on two books related to scientist Kurt Gödel. The books are "Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel," by Rebecca Goldstein and "A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Gödel and Einstein," by Palle Yourgrau. Born in 1906 to a German-speaking family in Brno, Gödel was educated at university in Vienna, at first studying physics but soon finding that mathematics was his true interest. He was particularly attracted by the rigour of mathematical methods and the certainty of mathematical truth, so the controversies over the validity of these methods that raged during the 1920s fascinated him. The problem that he chose for his doctoral dissertation was posed in a little textbook on formal logic published in 1928 by Hilbert and one of his students: to prove that the methods of inference used in the formula game encompass all possible logical reasoning.
- Subjects
INCOMPLETENESS: The Proof &; Paradox of Kurt Godel (Book); BOOKS; WORLD Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel &; Einstein, A (Book); GODEL, Kurt, 1906-1978; MATHEMATICAL programming; ACADEMIC achievement
- Publication
Nature, 2005, Vol 435, Issue 7038, p19
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/435019a