Goldstein has a literary sensibility, but doesn't convince her reader that she really has a grip either on the technical aspects of Gödel's work or on what Gödel's inner life must have been like. A novelist's imagination proved insufficiently powerful to see into the heart of what Gödel accomplished and who he was.
Math, the truest language for describing reality, falls flat when describing humans. For now...
15 posted on 09/19/2005 6:25:44 AM PDT by GOPJ
(Liberals have found their inner child -- what they're missing is an inner adult.)