{"product_id":"kurt-godel-the-genius-of-metamathematics","title":"Kurt Gödel: The Genius of Metamathematics","description":"Preface.- Prologue.- La Belle Époque in Brünn. Beginnings.- School Days. A New Nation.- Moving to the Capital. Student Life in 1920's Vienna.- The Wiener Kreis and the Mathematical Colloquium. Graduate work.- Private Life in Vienna.- Gödel's Doctoral Thesis. The Incompleteness Theorems.- The Mathematician in Vienna. Habilitation.- Matters of Health.- A Sojourn Abroad: 1933\/34 - Princeton.- Back to Vienna. The First Breakdown.- 'Commuting' between Vienna and Princeton - The Late 1930's. Marriage.- The Continuum Hypothesis.- Professional Uncertainty. A Long Journey Eastwards.- Princeton and the IAS - Philosophy, Einstein and von Neumann. A Bizarre Birthday Present: Gödel's Universe.- Reception, Recognition, Honors. Einstein's Loss. The Professor at Princeton.- The 1960's: Fame and Seclusion.- Later Years. Philosophy, Cosmology, Logic, Computability.- Gödel's Legacy - The Lessons of an Unusual Life.- Epilogue. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam D. Brewer was born 1943 in the USA. Educated in Chemistry and Mathematics at Univ. Oregon (Eugene) and Univ. California (Berkeley). Postdoctoral work in physics at the Freie Universit?t Berlin and in Orsay, France. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHabilitation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e in experimental physics at the FU Berlin, later \u003cb\u003eU\u003c\/b\u003eniversity \u003cb\u003eP\u003c\/b\u003erofessor there. Research in nuclear and solid-state physics, magnetism on surfaces and in thin films. Visiting scientist at \u003cb\u003eParis-Sud, \u003c\/b\u003e IBM Yorktown Heights, Stanford, \u003cb\u003eCRTBT Grenoble, \u003c\/b\u003e KU Leuven, Univ. S?o Paulo, CBPF - Rio de Janeiro. Translations of over 20 scientific works (German to English), work for the Einstein Papers Project. Co-author of the book \"Jayme Tiomno - A Life for Science, a Life for Brazil\" in the Springer Biographies series (2020). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50390365176082,"sku":"9783031113086","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6100835c-94eb-4262-a3eb-4bc9be75192c.jpg?v=1737078120","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/kurt-godel-the-genius-of-metamathematics","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}