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A World Without Time Palle Yourgrau

A World Without Time By Palle Yourgrau

A World Without Time by Palle Yourgrau


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Albert Einstein, whose 'Theory of Relativity' had made him the most famous scientist in the world, remarked towards the end of his career that he only went in to his office at Princeton, just to have the privilege of walking home with Kurt Godel.

A World Without Time Summary

A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein by Palle Yourgrau

Albert Einstein, whose Theory of Relativity had made him the most famous scientist in the world, remarked towards the end of his career that he only went in to his office at Princeton 'just to have the privilege of walking home with Kurt Godel'. He and Godel had both fled Europe and the clutches of Nazism and had found rare solace in each other's company in foreign exile. They argued as equals and reinspired their respective interests in pure mathematics and physics. Godel's 'Incompleteness Theorem' had been described at Harvard as the 'most significant mathematical result of the century'. He was one of the few people to understand the philosophical implications of Einstein's theories of the universe - and would later honour Einstein's seventieth birthday by addressing his theories directly, proving time to be an ideal. This extraordinary friendship is one of the most remarkable of the twentieth century, all the more so for remaining so unremarked.

About Palle Yourgrau

Palle Yourgrau is the author of The Disappearance of Time: Kurt Godel and the Idealistic Tradition in Philosophy and editor of Demonstratives. He is currently a Professor of Philosophy at Brandeis University.

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GOR004778589
9780713993875
0713993871
A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein by Palle Yourgrau
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Penguin Books Ltd
20050407
224
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