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To: RightWhale
True, and "Godel, Escher, Bach" is far more more revelatory regarding his logic. Still, I find insights into his personality also of interest. Other good examples are "Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture" and "Incompleteness," a Godel biography also by A. Doxiadus. I had another really good example but can't recall it now. I'll edit it in if I think of it later.
64 posted on 12/01/2007 4:37:33 PM PST by Recursive Prophet (Remember Godel died of starvation in Princeton....persona trumped logic?)
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To: Recursive Prophet

Never had any symbolic logic to speak of, but now have an eastern Euro text and have begun digging. It promises both Goedel’s theorems on predicate logic. It might be a while since it is slow going, but at some point there will be half a line of heiroglyphs and I’ll say ‘of course’.


65 posted on 12/01/2007 4:50:08 PM PST by RightWhale (anti-razors are pro-life)
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