书目名称 | Portrait of Young Gödel |
副标题 | Education, First Ste |
编辑 | Jan von Plato |
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概述 | Deals with Gödel‘s development from‘high school to his studies with Carnap in Vienna.Based upon primary sources from the archives at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.Covers Gödel‘s disser |
丛书名称 | Vienna Circle Institute Library |
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描述 | In the summer of 1928, Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) embarked on his logical journey that would bring him world fame in a mere three years. By early 1929, he had solved an outstanding problem in logic, namely the question of the completeness of the axioms and rules of quantificational logic. He then went on to extend the result to the axiom system of arithmetic but found, instead of completeness, his famous incompleteness theorem that got published in 1931. It belongs to the most iconic achievements of 20th century science and has been instrumental in the development of theories of formal languages and algorithmic computability – two essential components in the birth of the information society..This book explores Gödel’s way from an exceptional high-school student to a firmly established young logician. Essays in Gödel’s hand from the high school show that his central philosophical and scientific convictions were formed early on, before his university studies. Particular emphasis is laid on the course that made Gödel one of the foremost logicians of all times. The scientific biography of young Gödel is followed by English translations from Gödel’s German Gabelsberger shorthand of all his |
出版日期 | Book 2024 |
关键词 | Gödel and philosophy; Completeness theorem; Vienna Circle and Gödel; Gödel and Carnap; Gödel early years |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51971-0 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-51973-4 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-51971-0Series ISSN 1571-3083 |
issn_series | 1571-3083 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |