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Kurt Gödel

Essays for his Centennial

Solomon Feferman editor Charles Parsons editor Stephen G Simpson editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:19th Apr '10

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Papers examining aspects of Godel's work gathered from a symposium celebrating Gödel's centennial and papers from a 2004 ASL symposium.

Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) did groundbreaking work that transformed logic and other important aspects of our understanding of mathematics, especially his proof of the incompleteness of formalized arithmetic. This book on different aspects of his work and on subjects in which his ideas have contemporary resonance includes papers from a May 2006 symposium celebrating Gödel's centennial as well as papers from a 2004 symposium. Proof theory, set theory, philosophy of mathematics, and the editing of Gödel's writings are among the topics covered. Several chapters discuss his intellectual development and his relation to predecessors and contemporaries such as Hilbert, Carnap, and Herbrand. Others consider his views on justification in set theory in light of more recent work and contemporary echoes of his incompleteness theorems and the concept of constructible sets.

ISBN: 9780521115148

Dimensions: 235mm x 158mm x 21mm

Weight: 630g

384 pages