In 1931, Kurt Godel published his fundamental paper that challenged certain basic assumptions underlying much research in mathematics and logic.
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It offers every educated person with a taste for logic and philosophy the chance to understand a previously difficult and inaccessible subject.
Ernest Nagel and James Newman provide a readable and accessible explanation to both scholars and non-specialists of the main ideas and broad implications of Gödel\'s discovery.
However, few mathematicians of the time were equipped to understand the young scholar\'s complex proof.
The award committee described his work in mathematical logic as one of the greatest contributions to the sciences in recent times.
Gödel received public recognition of his work in 1951 when he was awarded the first Albert Einstein Award for achievement in the natural sciences--perhaps the highest award of its kind in the United States.
This revolutionary paper challenged certain basic assumptions underlying much research in mathematics and logic.
An accessible explanation of Kurt Gödel\'s groundbreaking work in mathematical logic In 1931 Kurt Gödel published his fundamental paper, On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems.
Nagel and Newman provide a readable and accessible explanation of the main ideas and broad implications of Godel\'s discovery.
In 1931, Kurt Godel published his fundamental paper that challenged certain basic assumptions underlying much research in mathematics and logic
