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KURT GODEL: COLLECTED WORKS
VOLUME I: PUBLICATIONS 1929-1936 |
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Kurt Godel, Solomon Feferman (Editor), Stephen C. Kleene (Editor) |
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ISBN 10: |
0195147200 |
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9780195147209 |
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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
Pub. date: |
1 May, 2001 |
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492 |
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The initial volume of a comprehensive edition of Godel's works, this book makes available for the first time in a single source all his publications from 1929 to 1936. The volume begins with an informative overview of Godel's life and work and features facing English translations for all German originals, extensive explanatory and historical notes, and a complete biography. Volume 2 will contain the remainder of Godel's published work, and subsequentvolumes will include unpublished manuscripts, lectures, correspondence and extracts from the notebooks. |
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Kurt Godel (1906 - 1978) was the most outstanding logician of the twentieth century, famous for his hallmark works 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 computability 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 Collected Works is a landmark resource that draws together a lifetime of creative thought and accomplishment. The first two volumes were devoted to Godel's publications in full (both in original and translation), and the third volume featured a wide selection of unpublished articles and lecture texts found in Godel's Nachlass. These long-awaited final two volumes contain Godel's correspondence of logical, philosophical, and scientific interest. Volume IV covers A to G, with H to Z in volume V; in addition, Volume V contains a full inventory of Godel's Nachlass.All volumes include introductory notes that provide extensive explanatory and historical commentary on each body of work, English translations of material originally written in German (some transcribed from the Gabelsberger shorthand), and a complete bibliography of all works cited. Kurt Godel: Collected Works is designed to be useful and accessible to as wide an audience as possible without sacrificing scientific or historical accuracy. The only comprehensive edition of Godel's work available, it will be an essential part of the working library of professionals and students in logic, mathematics, philosophy, history of science, and computer science and all others who wish to be acquainted with one of the great minds of the twentieth century. |
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Oxford University Press Inc |
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