Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel

Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel

Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel’s famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true—yet never provable—continues to unsettle mathematics, phi…

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