Normal view MARC view ISBD view

A world without time : the forgotten legacy of Gödel and Einstein / Palle Yourgrau

By:

Yourgrau, Palle

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Basic Books , c2005.Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 210 p., [4] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780465092932

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

530.11 YOU

LOC classification:

BD638 .Y73 2005

Contents:

Summary: For 15 years two men, one made like a rapier, the other looking like a pile of laundry, walked together to their respective homes through the Princeton campus, talking as only consummate academics can. In his last years on earth, Einstein would go to his office just to have these walks home. Perhaps he could see a future in which Gödel, the rapier and the world's greatest logician, would run out of time and leave this planet weighing, by his own choice, only 65 pounds. In their walks Gödel concluded that time, which Einstein showed not to exist on theoretical worlds, did not exist in this one either. Yourgrau (philosophy, Brandeis U.) explains the time they had together, and how Gödel's resulting paper on this crucial aspect of relativity has fared amongst physicists and philosophers.

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	530.11 YOU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Expurgado/No disponible		007701

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-199) and index.

A conspiracy of silence -- A German bias for metaphysics -- Vienna: logical circles -- A spy in the house of logic -- It's hard to leave Vienna -- Amid the demigods -- The scandal of big "T" and little "t" -- Twilight of the gods -- In what sense is Gödel (or anyone else) a philosopher?

For 15 years two men, one made like a rapier, the other looking like a pile of laundry, walked together to their respective homes through the Princeton campus, talking as only consummate academics can. In his last years on earth, Einstein would go to his office just to have these walks home. Perhaps he could see a future in which Gödel, the rapier and the world's greatest logician, would run out of time and leave this planet weighing, by his own choice, only 65 pounds. In their walks Gödel concluded that time, which Einstein showed not to exist on theoretical worlds, did not exist in this one either. Yourgrau (philosophy, Brandeis U.) explains the time they had together, and how Gödel's resulting paper on this crucial aspect of relativity has fared amongst physicists and philosophers.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.