Logical Dilemmas

This is a biography of the logician and philosopher Kurt Godel, whose work on the foundation of mathematics fundamentally changed views on the subject.

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This authoritative biography of Kurt Goedel relates the life of this most important logician of our time to the development of the field. Goedel's seminal achievements that changed the perception and foundations of mathematics are explained in the context of his life from the turn of the century Austria to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.