There's something about Gödel : the complete guide to the incompleteness theorem / Francesco Berto.
There's something about Gödel : the complete guide to the incompleteness theorem / Francesco Berto.
There's something about Gödel : the complete guide to the incompleteness theorem / Francesco Berto.
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Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
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2009.
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N511.3/75
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xx, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
The Gödelian symphony -- Foundations and paradoxes -- "This sentence is false" -- The liar and Gödel -- Language and metalanguage -- The axiomatic method, or how to get the non-obvious out of the obvious -- Peano's axioms -- And the unsatisfied logicists, Frege and Russell -- Bits of set theory --...
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Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2009.
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"Berto's highly readable and lucid guide introduces students and the interested reader to Godel's celebrated Incompleteness Theorem, and discusses some of the most famous - and infamous - claims arising from Godel's arguments." "This book offers a clear understanding of this difficult subject by presenting each of the key steps of the Theorem in se...
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There's something about Gödel : the complete guide to the incompleteness theorem / Francesco Berto.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-224) and index.
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Translated from the Italian.
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N511.3/75
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1405197676 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781405197663 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1405197668 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781405197670 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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511.3
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991015963319702626
