Bøger af Kurt Godel

Der Mathematiker Kurt Gödel hat über einen Zeitraum von 22 Jahren (1934-1955) philosophische Bemerkungen, die so genannten Maximen Philosophie (Max Phil), niedergeschrieben. Sie sind in 15 Notizbüchern in der Kurzschrift Gabelsberger überliefert. Das erste Heft enthält allgemeine philosophische Überlegungen, die Hefte zwei und drei bestehen aus Gödels Individualethik. Die dann folgenden zeigen, dass Gödel eine Wissenschaftsphilosophie entworfen hat, in der er seine Erörterungen zu Physik, Psychologie, Biologie, Mathematik, Sprache, Theologie und Geschichte in den Kontext einer Metaphysik stellt. In Band 4 ist fast die Hälfte der Bemerkungen Grundlagenfragen der Mathematik und Logik sowie Fragen der Philosophie der Mathematik gewidmet. Erstmals wird nun an der Kurt-Gödel-Forschungsstelle der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften eine vollständige, historisch-kritische Edition von Gödels Philosophischen Notizbüchern vorbereitet. Im Rahmen dieser Edition erscheint jährlich ein Band. In Band 4 setzt Gödel sich mit Grundlagenfragen der Mathematik und Logik sowie der Philosophie der Mathematik auseinander. Zudem stehen das Verhältnis verschiedener wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen zueinander und deren spezifische Fragestellungen im Zentrum seiner Überlegungen. Zu nennen sind hier insbesondere Philosophie, Psychologie, aber auch Theologie.

Kurt Godel, mathematician and logician, was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Godel fled Nazi Germany, fearing for his Jewish wife and fed up with Nazi interference in the affairs of the mathematics institute at the University of Gottingen. In 1933 he settled at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he joined the group of world-famous mathematicians who made up its original faculty. His 1940 book, better known by its short title, The Consistency of the Continuum Hypothesis, is a classic of modern mathematics. The continuum hypothesis, introduced by mathematician George Cantor in 1877, states that there is no set of numbers between the integers and real numbers. It was later included as the first of mathematician David Hilbert's twenty-three unsolved math problems, famously delivered as a manifesto to the field of mathematics at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris in 1900. In The Consistency of the Continuum Hypothesis Godel set forth his proof for this problem. In 1999, Time magazine ranked him higher than fellow scientists Edwin Hubble, Enrico Fermi, John Maynard Keynes, James Watson, Francis Crick, and Jonas Salk. He is most renowned for his proof in 1931 of the 'incompleteness theorem,' in which he demonstrated that there are problems that cannot be solved by any set of rules or procedures. His proof wrought fruitful havoc in mathematics, logic, and beyond.

Kurt Goedel, together with Bertrand Russell, is the most important name in logic, and in the foundations and philosophy of mathematics of this century.

This book makes available all Godel's his publications from 1929 to 1936. The volume begins with an informative overview of Godel's life and work and features facing English translations for all German originals, extensive explanatory and historical notes, and a complete biography. Volume 2 contains the remainder of Godel's published work.

This work, part of a five-volume set, makes available Kurt Godel's writings. The first three volumes, already published, consist of the papers and essays of Godel. The final two volumes of the set deal with Godel's correspondence with his contemporary mathematicians. This fifth volume consists of material from correspondents from H-Z.

Kurt Goedel was the greatest logician of this century. This third volume of his collected works consists of previously unpublished material, both essays and lectures.

This second volume of a comprehensive edition of logician Godel's works collects together all his publications from 1938 to 1974. Together with Volume I, it makes available for the first time in a single source all of his previously published work.

This book is part of a five-volume set that makes available all of Kurt Godel's writings. The first three volumes, already published, consist of the papers and essays of Godel. The final two volumes of the set deal with Godel's correspondence with his contemporary mathematicians. This fourth volume consists of material from correspondents from A-G.

This is the first volume of a comprehensive edition of the works of Kurt Godel, the most outstanding logician of the 20th century.