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 gem…An unforgettable account of one of the great moments in the history of human thought." —Steven Pinker Probing the life and work of Kurt Gödel, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning—and brought him to the edge of madness.