Kurt Godel: Collected Works: Volume IV
Kurt Godel (1906 - 1978) was the most outstanding logician of the twentieth century,
famous for his hallmark works on the completeness of logic, the incompleteness of number
theory, and the consistency of the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis. He is
also noted for his work on constructivity, the decision problem, and the foundations of
computability theory, as well as for the strong individuality of his writings on the
philosophy of mathematics. He is less well known for his discovery of unusual cosmological
models for Einstein's equations, in theory permitting time travel into the past. The
Collected Works is a landmark resource that draws together a lifetime of creative thought
and accomplishment. The first two volumes were devoted to Godel's publications in full
(both in original and translation), and the third volume featured a wide selection of
unpublished articles and lecture texts found in Godel's Nachlass. The final two volumes
contain Godel's correspondence of logical, philosophical, and scientific interest. Volume
IV, published for the first time in paperback, covers A to G, with H to Z in volume V; in
addition, Volume V contains a full inventory of Godel's Nachlass. All volumes include
introductory notes that provide extensive explanatory and historical commentary on each
body of work, English translations of material originally written in German (some
transcribed from the Gabelsberger shorthand), and a complete bibliography of all works
cited. Kurt Godel: Collected Works is designed to be useful and accessible to as wide an
audience as possible without sacrificing scientific or historical accuracy. The only
comprehensive edition of Godel's work available, it will be an essential part of the
working library of professionals and students in logic, mathematics, philosophy, history
of science, and computer science and all others who wish to be acquainted with one of the
great minds of the twentieth century.
List of Illustrations
Allan Angoff: introductory note and corresondence
Yossef Balas: introductory note and corresondence
Heinrich Behmann: introductory note and corresondence
Paul Bernays: introductory note and corresondence
Kenneth Blackwell: introductory note and corresondence
Herbert G. Bohnert: introductory note and corresondence
William Boone: introductory note and corresondence
Georg Brutian: introductory note and corresondence
J. Richard Buchi: introductory note and corresondence
Rudolph Carnap: introductory note and corresondence
Alonzo Church: introductory note and corresondence
Paul J. Cohen: introductory note and corresondence
Burton Dreben: introductory note and corresondence
Herbert Feigl: introductory note and corresondence
Paul Finsler: introductory note and corresondence
Wilson Follett: introductory note and corresondence
Leonard Goddard: introductory note and corresondence
Marianne Godel: introductory note and corresondence
Burke D. Grandjean: introductory note and corresondence
Marvin Jay Greenberg: introductory note and corresondence
Gotthard Gunther: introductory note and corresondence
Calendars of Correspondence
Textual notes
References
Addenda and corrigenda to volumes I-III
686 pages, Paperback