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Bezig met laden... Gödel: A Life of Logic, the Mind, and Mathematicsdoor John L. Casti
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 7/7/22 It took me a long time to get through this and I think the effort was worth it, but the style was heavy going on many occasions. This is alluded to in the introduction, which suggests that the original German text was even less populist. It was informative about Godel and his background but less so than I had hoped, and did not cover his mathematics in as much depth as I would have liked. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Kurt Gödel was an intellectual giant. His Incompleteness Theorem turned not only mathematics but also the whole world of science and philosophy on its head. Equally legendary were Gödel's eccentricities, his close friendship with Albert Einstein, and his paranoid fear of germs that eventually led to his death from self-starvation. Now, in the first popular biography of this strange and brilliant thinker, John Casti and Werner DePauli bring the legend to life. After describing his childhood in the Moravian capital of Brno, the authors trace the arc of Gödel's remarkable career, from the famed Vienna Circle, where philosophers and scientists debated notions of truth, to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where he lived and worked until his death in 1978. In the process, they shed light on Gödel's contributions to mathematics, philosophy, computer science, artificial intelligence--even cosmology--in an entertaining and accessible way. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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