Kurt Godel: Collected Works: Volume V
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and translation), and the third volume featured a wide selection of unpublished articles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. These long-awaited final two volumes contain
Godel's correspondence of logical, philosophical, and scientific interest. Volume V,
published for the first time in paperback, includes H to Z as well as a full inventory of
Godel's Nachlass, while Volume IV covers A to G. 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
Leon Henkin: introductory note and correspondence
Jacques Herbrand: introductory note and correspondence
Arend Heyting: introductory note and correspondence
Ted Honderich: introductory note and correspondence
Ralph Hwastecki: introductory note and correspondence
Karl Menger: introductory note and correspondence
Ernest Nagel: introductory note and correspondence
Donald Perlis: introductory note and correspondence
Walter Pitts: introductory note and correspondence
David F. Plummer: introductory note and correspondence
Karl Popper: introductory note and correspondence
Emil L. Post: introductory note and correspondence
Leon Rappaport: introductory note and correspondence
Wolfgang Rautenberg: introductory note and correspondence
Constance Reid: introductory note and correspondence
Abraham Robinson: introductory note and correspondence
Bertrand Russell: introductory note and correspondence
Frederick W. Sawyer: introductory note and correspondence
Paul Arthur Schilpp: introductory note and correspondence
Carl Seeling: introductory note and correspondence
Thoralf Skolem: introductory note and correspondence
Patrick Suppes: introductory note and correspondence
Alfred Tarski: introductory note and correspondence
Hans Thirring: introductory note and correspondence
Stanislaw Ulam: introductory note and correspondence
Jean van Heijenoort: introductory note and correspondence
John von Neumann: introductory note and correspondence
Hao Wang: introductory note and correspondence
Ernst Zermelo: introductory note and correspondence
Calendars of correspondence
Appendix A: Letters by others written on Godel's behalf
Appendix B: (1974a) Alternate version of Remark 3 of 1972a
Textual notes
Referenes
Index
692 pages, Paperback