Reflections on Kurt Gödel
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Except for a few minor corrections this second printing is identical to the first ([Wang 1987]). The book is meant to be a first attempt to consider G’s life and work as a whole within an inclusive context that, except maybe for chapters 6, 10, and 11, is accessible to most thoughtful people. The many personal contacts that W had with G during the later years of G’s life makes him an important source of information about G, particularly when one realizes that G was a rather private person, was reluctant to publish, and left a wide range of unfinished projects. W decided, for reasons of organization, to separate the private sayings for inclusion in a later book entitled Conversations with Kurt Gödel. The current volume, less dependent upon unpublished material, is subdivided into three parts.
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