Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

Broschiertes Buch

Incompleteness

The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel

Beschreibung

Probing the life and work of Kurt Gödel, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning-and brought him to the edge of madness.

Autor

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is an award-winning philosopher, writer, and public intellectual. She is the author of ten books of acclaimed fiction and non-fiction, including 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction and Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy of science from Princeton University and has taught at Yale, Columbia, NYU, Dartmouth, and Harvard. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, her work has been supported by the MacArthur "Genius" grant and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Whiting Institute, Radcliffe Institute, and the National Science Foundation. In 2015, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 138mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9780393327601
• ISBN-10: 0393327604
• Artikelnr.: 21346375