Download or read book Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel (Great Discoveries) written by Rebecca Goldstein and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-02-17 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the eminent twentieth-century mathematician discusses his theorem of incompleteness, relationships with such contemporaries as Albert Einstein, and untimely death as a result of mental instability and self-starvation.