Kurt Godel Collected Works: Correspondence A-G, Vol. 4
Kurt Godel, Wilfried Sieg (Editor), Charles Parsons (Editor), Warren Goldfarb (Editor), John W. DawsonBooks.org participates in affiliate programs including Bookshop.org and the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. We may earn a commission from qualifying purchases made through links on this page, at no additional cost to you.
Overview
Kurt Godel was one of the most outstanding logicians of the twentieth century, famous for his work on the completeness of logic, the incompleteness of number theory, and the consistency of the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis. He is also noted for his work on constructivity, the decision problem and the foundations of computation theory, as well as for the strong individuality of his writings on the philosophy of mathematics. He is less well known for his discovery of unusual cosmological models for Einstein's equations, in theory, permitting time travel into the past. The book is the fourth part of a five volume set, which is the first to make available all of Godel's writings in one place. The collected Works of Kurt Godel is designed to be useful and accessible to a wide audience without sacrificing scientific or historical accuracy.
Synopsis
German mathematician Gödel is best known for his incompleteness theorem, popularized by the book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (Hofstadter, 1989). This volume, along with the simultaneously published Volume 5, collects letters that the editors thought possessed historical, scientific, or philosophical interest or shed light on Gödel's personal thoughts or relationship with others. The names of the correspondents, represented in this volume by Paul Bernays, Paul Cohen, Alonzo Church, and others, provide the basis for the alphabetical arrangement of the material. An introductory note precedes each correspondent's section. Where the original is in German, an English translation is paired with the original text on facing pages. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR