Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel

Rebecca Goldstein

Apr 2022 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Tom Perkins

About this audiobook

"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.

Ratings and reviews

This is a great book about the life of Kurt Godel that recounts the story of his life as well as his ideas. There's the "influences" of Cantor, Russell, and Wittgenstein as well as the "influenced" of Turing, von Neumann, and Einstein. Goldstein also goes into great detail about the platonistic worldview of Godel and it's influence on his work. The decision to focus on the friendship between Einstein and Godel also worked really well and the narrative together. And of course, the narrator Tom Perkins does a world class job and made it very easy to listen to hours of this book on end.

About the author

Rebecca Goldstein received her doctorate in philosophy from Princeton University. Her award-winning books include the novels The Mind-Body Problem, Properties of Light, and 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction and nonfiction studies of Kurt Gödel and Baruch Spinoza.

An award-winning audio engineer for over forty years, Tom Perkins has expanded his skills to narrating and has more than sixty titles to his credit. He learned by working with the world's best voice talent during his career, and he continues to engineer a variety of projects.