Gödel: paradoja y vida

ISBN-10: 8495348233
ISBN-13: 9788495348234
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Pages: 264
Language: Spanish
Published: 2006
Publisher: Antoni Bosch editor
Author: Rebecca Goldstein

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Una introducción magistral a la vida y pensamiento del hombre que transformó para siempre nuestra concepción de las matemáticas. Se considera a Kurt Gödel el lógico más importante desde Aristóteles. Su monumental teorema de la incompletitud demuestra que en cualquier sistema formal de aritmética existen proposiciones verdaderas que, sin embargo, no pueden demostrarse. Este resultado creó una conmoción mucho más allá de las matemáticas, poniendo en duda nuestra concepción de la naturaleza y la mente. Rebecca Goldstein, novelista y filósofa, explica la visión filosófica que inspira las matemáticas de Gödel, y revela el error en las interpretaciones de su teorema por parte de los pensamientos filosóficos entonces en boga, desde el positivismo al postmodernismo. Irónicamente, tanto Gödel como su íntimo amigo y colega en Princeton, Einstein, se sentían exiliados intelectuales justo cuando sus trabajos eran aclamados como los más importantes del siglo XX. Para Gödel esta sensación de aislamiento tuvo unas consecuencias trágicas. Este libro, lúcido y accesible, permite al lector comprender el teorema de Gödel, dando vida al mismo tiempo a este genio excéntrico y torturado y a su mundo. “En su libro penetrante, accesible y magníficamente escrito, Rebecca Goldstein no sólo explora el trabajo de uno de los más grandes matemáticos, sino también la relación de la mente humana con el mundo que la rodea.” Alan Lightman, autor de Einstein's Dreams. Traducción de Víctor Úbeda Fernández

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