Book Review of: FRANCESCO BERTO. There's Something about Godel. Malden, Mass., and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4051-9766-3 (hbk); 978-1-4051-9767-0 (pbk). Pp. xx + 233. English translation of Tutti pazzi per Godel! (Rome: Gius, Laterza & Figli, 2008)
There's Something about Godel is a bargain: two books in one. The first half is a gentle but rigorous introduction to the incompleteness theorems for the mathematically uninitiated. The second is a survey of the philosophical, psychological, and sociological consequences people have attempted t...
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/970422022-10-03T07:52:31Z Book Review of: FRANCESCO BERTO. There's Something about Godel. Malden, Mass., and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4051-9766-3 (hbk); 978-1-4051-9767-0 (pbk). Pp. xx + 233. English translation of Tutti pazzi per Godel! (Rome: Gius, Laterza & Figli, 2008) McGee, Vann Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy McGee, Vann McGee, Vann There's Something about Godel is a bargain: two books in one. The first half is a gentle but rigorous introduction to the incompleteness theorems for the mathematically uninitiated. The second is a survey of the philosophical, psychological, and sociological consequences people have attempted to derive from the theorems, some of them quite fantastical. 2015-05-20T16:01:36Z 2015-05-20T16:01:36Z 2011-08 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/BookReview 0031-8019 1744-6406 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97042 McGee, V. “Book Review of: FRANCESCO BERTO. There’s Something About Godel. Malden, Mass., and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4051-9766-3 (hbk); 978-1-4051-9767-0 (pbk). Pp. Xx + 233. English Translation of Tutti Pazzi Per Godel! (Rome: Gius, Laterza & Figli, 2008).” Philosophia Mathematica 19, no. 3 (August 23, 2011): 367–369. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3516-5051 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/philmat/nkr025 Philosophia Mathematica Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Oxford University Press McGee |
| spellingShingle | McGee, Vann Book Review of: FRANCESCO BERTO. There's Something about Godel. Malden, Mass., and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4051-9766-3 (hbk); 978-1-4051-9767-0 (pbk). Pp. xx + 233. English translation of Tutti pazzi per Godel! (Rome: Gius, Laterza & Figli, 2008) |
| title | Book Review of: FRANCESCO BERTO. There's Something about Godel. Malden, Mass., and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4051-9766-3 (hbk); 978-1-4051-9767-0 (pbk). Pp. xx + 233. English translation of Tutti pazzi per Godel! (Rome: Gius, Laterza & Figli, 2008) |
| title_full | Book Review of: FRANCESCO BERTO. There's Something about Godel. Malden, Mass., and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4051-9766-3 (hbk); 978-1-4051-9767-0 (pbk). Pp. xx + 233. English translation of Tutti pazzi per Godel! (Rome: Gius, Laterza & Figli, 2008) |
| title_fullStr | Book Review of: FRANCESCO BERTO. There's Something about Godel. Malden, Mass., and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4051-9766-3 (hbk); 978-1-4051-9767-0 (pbk). Pp. xx + 233. English translation of Tutti pazzi per Godel! (Rome: Gius, Laterza & Figli, 2008) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Book Review of: FRANCESCO BERTO. There's Something about Godel. Malden, Mass., and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4051-9766-3 (hbk); 978-1-4051-9767-0 (pbk). Pp. xx + 233. English translation of Tutti pazzi per Godel! (Rome: Gius, Laterza & Figli, 2008) |
| title_short | Book Review of: FRANCESCO BERTO. There's Something about Godel. Malden, Mass., and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4051-9766-3 (hbk); 978-1-4051-9767-0 (pbk). Pp. xx + 233. English translation of Tutti pazzi per Godel! (Rome: Gius, Laterza & Figli, 2008) |
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