Gödel (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John L. Casti, Werner DePauli
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Biography, history of science, and philosophy
- Time of Work: 1906-1978
- Setting: Austria and Princeton, New Jersey
- Principal Characters: Kurt Gödel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Albert Einstein
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, Philosophy or philosophers, Twentieth century, 1940’s, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, New Jersey, Austria or Austrians, Mathematics or mathematicians, 1900’s
- Locales: Austria, Princeton, NJ
Mathematician John L. Casti is simultaneously professor of operations research and system theory at the Technical University of Vienna and a member of the external faculty of the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A prolific author of both technical and popular works, Casti has produced some of the recent years’ most inventive and imaginative books on science and mathematics. His Five Golden Rules: Great Theories of Twentieth Century Mathematics and Why They Matter (1996) and Five More Golden Rules: Knots, Codes, Chaos, and Other Great Theories of Twentieth Century...
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