{"product_id":"journey-to-the-edge-of-reason-the-life-of-kurt-godel","title":"Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel","description":"\u003cp\u003eNearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true--yet never provable--continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein, with whom he formed a warm and abiding friendship, Gödel has long escaped all but the most casual scrutiny of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen Budiansky's \u003cem\u003eJourney to the Edge of Reason\u003c\/em\u003e is the first biography to fully draw upon Gödel's voluminous letters and writings--including a never-before-transcribed shorthand diary of his most intimate thoughts--to explore Gödel's profound intellectual friendships, his moving relationship with his mother, his troubled yet devoted marriage, and the debilitating bouts of paranoia that ultimately took his life. It also offers an intimate portrait of the scientific and intellectual circles in prewar Vienna, a haunting account of Gödel's and Jewish intellectuals' flight from Austria and Germany at the start of the Second World War, and a vivid re-creation of the early days of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, where Gödel and Einstein both worked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEloquent and insightful, \u003cem\u003eJourney to the Edge of Reason\u003c\/em\u003e is a fully realized portrait of the odd, brilliant, and tormented man who has been called the greatest logician since Aristotle, and illuminates the far-reaching implications of Gödel's revolutionary ideas for philosophy, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and man's place in the cosmos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBudiansky, Stephen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eStephen Budiansky\u003c\/strong\u003e is a historian, biographer, and journalist whose writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e. A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, he resides in Loudoun County, Virginia.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50495065358610,"sku":"9781324005445","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2ba37cbc-6d3f-45fd-80f5-b5b5ee1fd40b.jpg?v=1730671479","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/journey-to-the-edge-of-reason-the-life-of-kurt-godel","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}