There's Something About Gödel: The Complete Guide to the Incompleteness TheoremISBN: 978-1-4051-9766-3
Hardcover
256 pages
November 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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"There's Something about G¨odel is a bargain: two books in
one. The first half is a gentle but rigorous introduction to the
incompleteness theorems for the mathematically uninitiated. The
second is a survey of the philosophical, psychological, and
sociological consequences people have attempted to derive from the
theorems, some of them quite fantastical." (Philosophia
Mathematica, 2011)
—Graham Priest, University of Melbourne
“There is a story that in 1930 the great mathematician John von Neumann emerged from a seminar delivered by Kurt Gödel saying: ‘It's all over.’ Gödel had just proved the two theorems about the logical foundations of mathematics that are the subject of this valuable new book by Francesco Berto. Berto's clear exposition and his strategy of dividing the proof into short, easily digestible chunks make it pleasant reading ... .Berto is lucid and witty in exposing mistaken applications of Gödel's results ... [and] has provided a thoroughly recommendable guide to Gödel's theorems and their current status within, and outside, mathematical logic.” (Times Higher Education Supplement, February 2010)
"Berto's book will tell you everything you wanted to know about Gödel's theorem, but were too afraid to ask. Read it if you want your biggest organ pleasurably stimulated."—Graham Priest, University of Melbourne