From Library Journal
Wang, professor of logic at Rockefeller University, was personally acquainted with Godel in his last years, and relies on recollected conversations as well as published and unpublished material in this first extended treatment of Godel's life and work. Known primarily as a mathematician/logician from his published work, Godel's extensive unpublished work, says Wang, contains "bold speculations on several perennial issues of universal concern." Those issues are only hinted at here, as most of the philosophical discussion concerns the philosophy of mathematics. Wang promises a future book dealing with Godel's Nachlass. Because material now available on Godel is limited, this somewhat rambling, anecdotal account is essential for pertinent subject collections. Leon H. Brody, U.S. Office of Personnel Management Lib., Washington, D.C.
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Review
"Hao Wang, himself a distinguished logician, has performed a remarkable service in producing this book.... It is an invaluable source book on one of the most remarkable thinkers of our century"
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Nature "The depth and authority of Wang's analysis are certain to make his treatise a standard reference."
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New Scientist