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Verlag: Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus, 2001
ISBN 10: 0738205184ISBN 13: 9780738205182
Anbieter: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Deutschland
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Originalbroschur. Zustand: Gut. 1. paperback print. 210 S. Einband leicht berieben. - Kurt Gödel was an intellectual giant. His Incompleteness Theorem turned not only mathematics but also the whole world of science and philosophy on its head. Shattering hopes that logic would, in the end, allow us complete understanding of the universe, Gödel's theorem also raised many provocative questions: What are the limits of rational thought? Can we ever fully understand the machines we build? Or the inner workings of our own minds? How should mathematicians proceed in the absence of complete certainty about their results? A complex figure, Gödel was by turns social and reclusive, ambitious and paranoid. A close friend of Albert Einstein, he declined rapidly after Einstein's death, eventually starving himself from his fear of germs. But as Cash and DePauli brilliantly demonstrate, Gödel's influence persisted. His work has revolutionized not only mathematics, but philosophy, linguistics, computer science, and even cosmology. In this remarkable book, Casti and DePauli at last bring to life Kurt Gödel's eccentric, legendary genius, and his profound intellectual legacy. ISBN 0738205184 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 225.