Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel
Autor Stephen Budianskyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 ian 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780198866435
ISBN-10: 0198866437
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: 70 black and white images
Dimensiuni: 130 x 197 x 200 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0198866437
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: 70 black and white images
Dimensiuni: 130 x 197 x 200 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
Budiansky opens up the history of a time where great progress was achieved in foundations of mathematics against the backdrop of the Second World War. This is an easily accessible account for those who did not have the chance to meet Kurt Gödel in person...For the generations that possibly enjoy the t-shirt version of Gödel's work, I would hope that the variety of his work would spark more diversified Gödel merchandise
It would be easy to fall into the trap of repeating somewhat exaggerated anecdotes and to ridicule the leading character of this biography. Therefore, it is a pleasure to read a book on the life of Gödel that does all but that. The book offers a serious and unapologetic account of Gödel's life ... The new take on the topics is refreshing and brings the past to life through a coherent narrative.
Selected as a 2021 Book of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement
wonderfully engrossing
Budiansky, for all his tremendous efforts and exhaustive interrogations of Gödel's times and places, acquaintances and offices, can only leave us, at the end, with an immeasurably enriched version of Gödel the wise child. It's an undeniably distracting and reductive picture. But - and this is the trouble - it's not wrong.
Journey to the Edge of Reason covers [Gödel's life and work] engagingly and clearly, which is quite a feat given the difficulty of the material. The author... also manages successfully to convey Gödel's naivety, eccentricity and paranoia as well as his genius.
In this excellent new biography, Stephen Budiansky introduces the reader to Gödel's stunning achievements in logic, illuminates his devastating mental illness and considers how the two might be related.
An engaging read, both on a personal and professional level.
One of the great geniuses of the 20th century, barely known outside the academy today, receives a much-needed expert biographical treatment ... An outstanding biography of a man of incomprehensible brilliance.
Journey to the Edge of Reason is an intimate and haunting portrait of one of the most elusive gods on Princeton's Mt. Olympus. A triumph of research and a wonderful read.
Kurt Gödel's mathematical results on incompleteness and undecidable propositions leave it up to us, as individuals, to choose whether to mourn these limits to the power of formal systems, or celebrate his proof that even the most rigid numerical bureaucracy contains the tools by which higher truth will always be able to effect an escape. Stephen Budianksy's Journey to the Edge of Reason expertly and humanely frames these results between Gödel's childhood under the dark shadow of the Austrian and Nazi bureaucracies, his escape to America, his descent into physical and mental illness, and his achievement of a reconciliation between spiritual faith and scientific proof.
A painstakingly researched and lucidly presented biography—a close-up of one of the most influential and enigmatic thinkers of the twentieth century—full of vivid detail and sharp historical insight.
A brilliant biography of one of the most original thinkers of all time, Journey to the Edge of Reason is as deep and precise as the genius it describes. In a paradox befitting Gödel himself, it takes a tale of logic and its limits and finds, at its heart, something strangely soulful and sympathetic.
Prepare yourself for a great adventure and fascinating book that can be picked up at ease and read at pace..Budiansky provides a gripping and interesting dialogue fitting the great story of this fascinating figure...an excellent book.
It would be easy to fall into the trap of repeating somewhat exaggerated anecdotes and to ridicule the leading character of this biography. Therefore, it is a pleasure to read a book on the life of Gödel that does all but that. The book offers a serious and unapologetic account of Gödel's life ... The new take on the topics is refreshing and brings the past to life through a coherent narrative.
Selected as a 2021 Book of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement
wonderfully engrossing
Budiansky, for all his tremendous efforts and exhaustive interrogations of Gödel's times and places, acquaintances and offices, can only leave us, at the end, with an immeasurably enriched version of Gödel the wise child. It's an undeniably distracting and reductive picture. But - and this is the trouble - it's not wrong.
Journey to the Edge of Reason covers [Gödel's life and work] engagingly and clearly, which is quite a feat given the difficulty of the material. The author... also manages successfully to convey Gödel's naivety, eccentricity and paranoia as well as his genius.
In this excellent new biography, Stephen Budiansky introduces the reader to Gödel's stunning achievements in logic, illuminates his devastating mental illness and considers how the two might be related.
An engaging read, both on a personal and professional level.
One of the great geniuses of the 20th century, barely known outside the academy today, receives a much-needed expert biographical treatment ... An outstanding biography of a man of incomprehensible brilliance.
Journey to the Edge of Reason is an intimate and haunting portrait of one of the most elusive gods on Princeton's Mt. Olympus. A triumph of research and a wonderful read.
Kurt Gödel's mathematical results on incompleteness and undecidable propositions leave it up to us, as individuals, to choose whether to mourn these limits to the power of formal systems, or celebrate his proof that even the most rigid numerical bureaucracy contains the tools by which higher truth will always be able to effect an escape. Stephen Budianksy's Journey to the Edge of Reason expertly and humanely frames these results between Gödel's childhood under the dark shadow of the Austrian and Nazi bureaucracies, his escape to America, his descent into physical and mental illness, and his achievement of a reconciliation between spiritual faith and scientific proof.
A painstakingly researched and lucidly presented biography—a close-up of one of the most influential and enigmatic thinkers of the twentieth century—full of vivid detail and sharp historical insight.
A brilliant biography of one of the most original thinkers of all time, Journey to the Edge of Reason is as deep and precise as the genius it describes. In a paradox befitting Gödel himself, it takes a tale of logic and its limits and finds, at its heart, something strangely soulful and sympathetic.
Prepare yourself for a great adventure and fascinating book that can be picked up at ease and read at pace..Budiansky provides a gripping and interesting dialogue fitting the great story of this fascinating figure...an excellent book.
Notă biografică
Stephen Budiansky is the author of eighteen books of biography, history, and science. From 1979 to 1982 he was a magazine editor and radio producer at the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C.; from 1982 to 1985 he was Washington correspondent and then Washington editor of the scientific journal Nature. He joined the staff of U.S. News & World Report, where he worked in a variety of writing and editing positions, including national security correspondent, foreign editor, and deputy editor. Since 1998 he has been a full-time author and independent scholar, and in 2011 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts as a writer of general nonfiction. His books include Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas (2019); Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union (2016); and Mad Music: Charles Ives, the Nostalgic Rebel (2014).