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Hardback. Condition: Good. The life and legacy of the greatest logician since Aristotle. Kurt Gdel was an intellectual giant. His Incompleteness Theorem turned not only mathematics but also the whole world of science and philosophy on its head. Equally legendary were Gdel's eccentricities, his close friendship with Albert Einstein, and his paranoid fear of germs that eventually led to his death from self-starvation. Now, in the first popular biography of this strange and brilliant thinker, John Casti and Werner DePauli bring the legend to life. After describing his childhood in the Moravian capital of Brno, the authors trace the arc of Gdel's remarkable career, from the famed Vienna Circle, where philosophers and scientists debated notions of truth, to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where he lived and worked until his death in 1978. In the process, they shed light on Gdel's contributions to mathematics, philosophy, computer science, artificial intelligence--even cosmology--in an entertaining and accessible way.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. In this narrative tour de force, five of the greatest minds of the twentieth century argue whether machines will ever have the ability to think like humans--and whether they should be allowed to do so.

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Hardback. Condition: Good. How did mathematics influence the decoding of Nazi war plans, the prediction of trends on the stock market and the invention of computers? This book reveals seven of the most important theorems in 20th-century mathematics.

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