EAN: 9781324005445

JOURNEY TO THE EDGE OF REASON - STEPHEN BUDIANS...

Nearly a hundred years after its publication  Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical
system must contain propositions that are true-yet never provable-continues to unsettle
mathematics  philosophy  and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein  with whom he formed a warm
and abiding friendship  Gödel has long escaped all but the most casual scrutiny of his life.
Stephen Budiansky's Journey to the Edge of Reason is the first biography to fully draw upon
Gödel's voluminous letters and writings-including a never-before-transcribed shorthand diary of
his most intimate thoughts-to explore Gödel's profound intellectual friendships  his moving
relationship with his mother  his troubled yet devoted marriage  and the debilitating bouts of
paranoia that ultimately took his life. It also offers an intimate portrait of the scientific
and intellectual circles in prewar Vienna  a haunting account of Gödel's and Jewish
intellectuals' flight from Austria and Germany at the start of the Second World War  and a
vivid re-creation of the early days of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton  NJ  where
Gödel and Einstein both worked. Eloquent and insightful  Journey to the Edge of Reason is a
fully realized portrait of the odd  brilliant  and tormented man who has been called the
greatest logician since Aristotle  and illuminates the far-reaching implications of Gödel's
revolutionary ideas for philosophy  mathematics  artificial intelligence  and man's place in
the cosmos.

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