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Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel
by Stephen Budiansky
Description: Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel details the life and work of the logician and mathematician known for his Incompleteness Theorems, which significantly influenced modern mathematics and science
ISBN: 1324005440
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m-hodges · 2025-09-27 · Original thread
Thanks for the recommendation. I’m currently reading Journey To The Edge of Reason,¹ which is nominally a biography of Kurt Gödel but the first third is about the rise and fall of Austrian intellectual dominance and the Vienna Circle is a central piece of that story.

¹ https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Edge-Reason-Life-G%C3%B6del/d...

m-hodges · 2025-09-25 · Original thread
I’m currently reading a biography of Kurt Gödel¹ and the first 60 pages are about Austria’s authoritarian-driven brain drain almost 100 years ago.

¹ https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Edge-Reason-Life-G%C3%B6del/d...