'What is a self and how can a self come out of inanimate matter?' This is the riddle that drove Douglas Hofstadter to write this extraordinary book. In order to

"An introduction to the life and thought of Kurt Gödel, who transformed our conception of math forever"--Provided by publisher.

From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific an

The fundamental texts of the great classical period in modern logic, some of them never before available in English translation, are here gathered together for

Kurt Gödel was an intellectual giant. His Incompleteness Theorem turned not only mathematics but also the whole world of science and philosophy on its head. Sh