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Kurt Gödel: Collected Works: Volume V
Correspondence, H-Z
Kurt Gödel
Edited by S. Feferman, John W. Dawson, Jr., Warren Goldfarb, Charles Parsons, and Wilfried Sieg
690 pages
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2 line, 13 half tone
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234x156mm
978-0-19-850075-9
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Hardback
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27 March 2003
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- Fifth volume of well acclaimed series
- Only complete editions of Gödels work available in English
- Contains translated material and original material
Kurt Gödel (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to Gödel's publications in full (both in original and translation), and the third volume featured a wide selection of unpublished articles and lecture texts found in Gödel's Nachlass. These long-awaited final two volumes contain Gödel'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 Gödel's Nachlass. L 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 Gödel: 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 Gödel'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.Readership: Students and researchers of Mathematics, Philosophy, Computer Science and the History of Mathematics. General interest readers interested in any of the above.
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Kurt Gödel Edited by S. Feferman, Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University, USA, John W. Dawson, Jr., Professor of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University, USA, Warren Goldfarb, Charles Parsons, and Wilfried Sieg
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"The publication of five volumes of Gödel's Collected Works is doubtlessly a marvellous achievement." - Zentralblatt MATH "The editors did an excellent job! ... The five volumes of Gödel's Collected Works, being the best way of honouring Gödel, will certainly serve all researchers interested in the field of mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics as well as the philosophy of mathematics and history of logic." - Zentralblatt MATH
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