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Incompleteness by Rebecca Goldstein is also a fantastic bio of Gödel that captures the historical context and significance of his work
by pge 5y ago
Incompleteness by Rebecca Goldstein is also a fantastic bio of Gödel that captures the historical context and significance of his work
- throwaway81523 5y agoI have not read Goldstein's book, but multiple reviews by mathematicians said that while she did a careful and sensitive job on the biographical parts of the book, she completely messed up the mathematical parts. It's not that a biography needs to focus on technical details (that's what textbooks are for), but the author should at least understand them before writing about their significance. See Torkel Franzén's book for more about that.