Collected Works: Volume II
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
| ISBN-13 | 9780195147216 |
| Open Library | OL8002131W |
| Total publications | 3 |
| Coverage period | 2001 - 2001 |
| Language | EN |
Abstract Kurt Gudel (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to Gudel’s publications in full (both in original and translation), and the third volume featured a wide selection of unpublished articles and lecture texts found in Gudel’s Nachlass. These long-awaited final two volumes contain Gudel’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 Gudel’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 Gudel: 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 Gudel’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.
Collected Works
Kurt Gudel (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 ma…
Collected Works
A remark about the relationship between relativity theory and idealistic philosophy (1949a)
One of the most interesting aspects of relativity theory for the philosophical-minded consists in the fact that it gave new and surprising in sights into the nature of time, of that mysterious and seemingly self contradictory being which, on the other hand, seems to form the basis of the world’s and our own existence. The very starting point of special relativity theory consists in the discovery of a new and very astonishing property of time, nam…
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Collected Works
Kurt Gudel (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 ma…
Collected Works
A remark about the relationship between relativity theory and idealistic philosophy (1949a)
One of the most interesting aspects of relativity theory for the philosophical-minded consists in the fact that it gave new and surprising in sights into the nature of time, of that mysterious and seemingly self contradictory being which, on the other hand, seems to form the basis of the world’s and our own existence. The very starting point of special relativity theory consists in the discovery of a new and very astonishing property of time, nam…