Kurt Gödel : essays for his centennial / edited by Solomon Feferman, Charles Parsons, Stephen G. Simpson.

Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) did groundbreaking work that transformed logic and other important aspects of our understanding of mathematics, especially his proof of the incompleteness of formalized arithmetic. This book on different aspects of his work and on subjects in which his ideas have contemporary...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Lecture notes in logic ; 33.
Other Authors: Gödel, Kurt (Editor)
Feferman, Solomon (Editor)
Parsons, Charles, 1933- (Editor)
Simpson, Stephen G. (Stephen George), 1945- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Series:Lecture notes in logic ; 33.
Subjects:
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 373 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • GENERAL. The Gödel editorial project : a synopsis / Solomon Feferman
  • Future tasks for Gödel scholars / John W. Dawson, Jr., and Cheryl A. Dawson
  • PROOF THEORY. Gödel and the metamathematical tradition / Jeremy Avigad
  • Only two letters : the correspondence between Herbrand and Gödel / Wilfried Sieg
  • Gödel's reformulation of Gentzen's first consistency proof for arithmetic : the no-counterexample interpretation / W.W. Tait
  • Gödel on intuition and on Hilbert's finitism / W.W. Tait
  • The Gödel hierarchy and reverse mathematics / Stephen G. Simpson
  • On the outside looking in : a caution about conservativeness / John P. Burgess
  • SET THEORY. Gödel and set theory / Akihiro Kanamori
  • Generalizations of Gödel's universe of constructible sets / Sy-David Friedman
  • On the question of absolute undecidability / Peter Koellner
  • PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS. What did Gödel believe and when did he believe it? / Martin Davis
  • On Gödel's way in : the influence of Rudolf Carnap / Warren Goldfarb
  • Gödel and Carnap / Steve Awodey and A.W. Carus
  • On the philosophical development of Kurt Gödel / Mark van Atten and Juliette Kennedy
  • Platonism and mathematical intuition in Kurt Gödel's thought / Charles Parsons
  • Gödel's conceptual realism / Donald A. Martin.