The lives of great thinkers are sometimes overshadowed by their achievements - a phenomenon perhaps no better exemplified than by the life and work of Kurt Godel, a reclusive genius whose incompleteness theorems and set-theoretic consistency proofs are among the most celebrated results of twentieth-century mathematics, yet whose life history has until recently remained almost unknown.
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Godel's Theorem in Focus (Philosophers in Focus)
by Stuart Shanker
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"The lives of great thinkers are sometimes overshadowed by their achievements - a phenomenon perhaps no better exemplified than by the life and work of Kurt Godel, a reclusive genius whose incompleteness theorems and set-theoretic consistency proofs are among the most celebrated results of twentieth-century mathematics, yet whose life history has until recently remained almost unknown."
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