Kurt Gödel: Collected Works: Volume II - Kurt Gödel

Kurt Gödel: Collected Works: Volume II

Publications 1938-1974
Buch | Hardcover
424 Seiten
1990
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-503972-6 (ISBN)
319,95 inkl. MwSt
This second volume of a comprehensive edition of Kurt Godel's works collects the remainder of his published work, covering the period 1938-1974. (Volume I included all of his publications from 1929-1936). Each article or closely related group of articles is preceded by an introductory note that elucidates it and places it in historical context.
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to Gödel's publications in full (both in original and translation), and the third volume featured a wide selection of unpublished articles and lecture texts found in Gödel's Nachlass.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.
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.

The Editor-in-Chief Solomon Feferman is Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy, and Chairman of the Department of Mathematics at Stanford University. He is past president of the Association of Symbolic Logic. The Editors John W. Dawson, Jr., is Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University, York. Steven C. Kleene is Emeritus Dean of Letters and Science, and Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Gregory H. Moore is Associate Professor of Mathematics at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Robert M. Solovay is Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. The late Jean van Heijenoort was Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Brandeis University until his death in 1986.

Gödel 1938: Introductory note to 1938, 1939, 1939a, and 1940 by Robert M. Solovay; The consistency of the axiom of choice and of the generalized continuum hypothesis; Gödel 1939: the consistency of the generalized continuum hypothesis; Gödel 1939a: Consistency proof for the generalized continuum hypothesis; Gödel 1940: the consistency of the axiom of choice and of the generalized continuum hypothesis with the axioms of set theory; Gödel 1944: Introductory note to 1944 by Charles Parsons; Russell's mathematical logic; Gödel 1946: Introductory note to 1946 by Charles Parsons; Remarks before the Princeton bicentennial conference on problems in mathematics; Gödel 1947: Introductory note to 1947 and 1964 by Gregory H. Moore; What is Cantor's continuum problem?; Gödel 1949: Introductory note to 1949 and 1952 by S.W. Hawking; An example of a new type of cosmological solutions of Einstein's field equations of gravitation; Gödel 1949a: Introductory note to 1949a by Howard Stein; A remark about the relationship between relativity theory and idealistic philosophy; Gödel 1952: Rotaoting universes in general relativity theory; Gödel 1958: Introductory note to 1958 and 1972 by A.S. Troelstra; Über eine bisher noch nicht benützte Erweiterung des finiten Standpunktes; On a hitherto unutilized extension of the finitary standpoint; Gödel 1962: postscript to Spector 1962; Gödel 1964: What is Cantor's continuum problem? Gödel 1972: On an extension of finitary mathematics which has not yet been used; Gödel 1972a: Introductory note to 1972a by Solomon Feferman, Robert M. Solovay, and Judson C. Webb; Some remarks on the undecidability results; Gödel 1974: Introductory note to 1974 by Jens Erik Fenstad; Remark on non-standard analysis; Textual notes; References.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.4.1990
Zusatzinfo frontispiece, 5 halftone plates
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 163 x 242 mm
Gewicht 727 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Logik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Logik / Mengenlehre
ISBN-10 0-19-503972-6 / 0195039726
ISBN-13 978-0-19-503972-6 / 9780195039726
Zustand Neuware
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