104 Pages
by
Routledge
104 Pages
by
Routledge
104 Pages
by
Routledge
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'Nagel and Newman accomplish the wondrous task of clarifying the argumentative outline of Kurt Godel's celebrated logic bomb.' – The Guardian
In 1931 the mathematical logician Kurt Godel published a revolutionary paper that challenged certain basic assumptions underpinning mathematics and logic. A colleague of physicist Albert Einstein, his theorem proved that mathematics was partly... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Problem of Consistency; Chapter 3 Absolute Proofs of Consistency; Chapter 4 The Systematic Codification of Formal Logic; Chapter 5 An Example of a Successful Absolute Proof of Consistency; Chapter 6 The Idea of Mapping and Its Use in Mathematics; Chapter 7 Gödel's Proofs; Chapter 8 Concluding Reflections;
Biography
James R. Newman
