📗 Libro en inglés JOURNEY TO THE EDGE OF REASON

A remarkable account of Kurt GÃ del weaving together creative genius mental illness political corruption and idealism in the face of the turmoil of war and upheaval At age 24 a brilliant Austrian born mathematician published a mathematical result that shook the world Nearly a hundred years after Kurt GÃ del s famous 1931 paper On Formally Undecidable Propositions appeared his proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true yet never provable within that system continues to pose profound questions for mathematics philosophy computer science and artificial intelligence His close friend Albert Einstein with whom he would walk home every day from Princeton s famous Institute for Advanced Study called him the greatest logician since Aristotle He was also a man who felt profoundly out of place in his time rejecting the entire current of 20th century philosophical thought in his belief that mathematical truths existed independent of the human mind and beset by personal demons of anxiety and paranoid delusions that would ultimately lead to his tragic end from self starvation Drawing on previously unpublished letters diaries and medical records Journey to the Edge of Reason offers the most complete portrait yet of the l