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Kurt Gödel: The Genius of Metamathematics
Book Details
- Publisher: Springer
- Publish Date: Sep 10th, 2023
- Pages: 495
- Language: English
- Edition: 2022 - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.21in - 6.14in - 1.05in - 1.59lb
- EAN: 9783031113116
- Categories: • History & Philosophy• Logic• Physics - General
About the Author
William D. Brewer was born 1943 in the USA. Educated in Chemistry and Mathematics at Univ. Oregon (Eugene) and Univ. California (Berkeley). Postdoctoral work in physics at the Freie Universität Berlin and in Orsay, France. Habilitation in experimental physics at the FU Berlin, later University Professor there. Research in nuclear and solid-state physics, magnetism on surfaces and in thin films. Visiting scientist at Paris-Sud, IBM Yorktown Heights, Stanford, CRTBT Grenoble, KU Leuven, Univ. São Paulo, CBPF - Rio de Janeiro. Translations of over 20 scientific works (German to English), work for the Einstein Papers Project. Co-author of the book "Jayme Tiomno - A Life for Science, a Life for Brazil" in the Springer Biographies series (2020).
Praise for this book
"The book is generously illustrated, often with color photographs and diagrams, mostly of individuals mentioned in the book, or of maps and buildings where Gödel lived or stayed ... at various periods throughout his life. ... anyone interested in a general overview of his biography and broad sketches of his technical works and philosophical/theological views will find this an easy read." (Joseph W. Dauben, Mathematical Reviews, September, 2023)
"This biography of Kurt Gödel is written for a wide audience with a limited mathematical background. ... The biography is written in a clear and readable style and is very well researched. I was particularly impressed by the author's familiarity with all things German. ... I strongly recommend this biography to anyone interested in the life (and the work) of Kurt Gödel, whose incompleteness theorems spelled the end of Hilbert's program." (Franz Lemmermeyer, zbMATH 1505.01001, 2023)