Mathematician (28-Apr-1906 — 14-Jan-1978)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

John L. Casti; Werner DePauli. Gödel: A Life of Logic, the Mind and Mathematics. New York: Perseus Publishing. 2000. 210pp.

John W. Dawson, Jr.. Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Work of Kurt Gödel. A K Peters. 1997. 361pp.

Rebecca Goldstein. Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel. W. W. Norton. 2005. 296pp.

Karl Sigmund; John Dawson; Kurt Mühlberger. Kurt Gödel: Das Album / The Album. Springer. 2006. 225pp.

Hao Wang. A Logical Journey: From Gödel to Philosophy. MIT Press. 1996. 391pp.

Hao Wang. Reflections on Kurt Gödel. MIT Press. 1990. 362pp.

Palle Yourgrau. A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Gödel and Einstein. Basic Books. 2005. 210pp.

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2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Wikipedia [link]

4. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.598)

5. 20th Century Culture: A Biographical Companion (p.275)

6. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.259)

7. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.277)

8. Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (p.504)

9. One Hundred Twentieth-Century Philosophers (pp.70-71)

10. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.205)

11. Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientists (p.198)

12. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ideas (p.223)

13. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.153)

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