The first major biography of the logician and mathematician whose Incompleteness Theorems helped launch a modern scientific revolution. Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel’s famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true―yet never provable―continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Ei...(展开全部)

A writer finds solitude and salvation tracing the lives and deaths of three of her literary lights in a haunted and lyrical travelogue from NBCC Award-winner Tezer Özlü. An unnamed writer embarks on an obsessive journey through Europe, drawn to the gravesites of her literary idols—Cesare Pavese, Italo Svevo, Franz Kafka—putting her life, her writing, and her politics in convers...(展开全部)

约翰·道森(John W.Dawson Jr.)，美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学数学系教授。生于堪萨斯州威奇塔市（Wichita）。曾获美国国家优秀学者奖（National Merit Scholar）。就读于麻省理工学院，后在密歇根大学攻读博士学位，研究数理逻辑。国际公认的哥德尔研究权威。道森教授就现代逻辑学史和公理集合论写过大量文章。1982到1984年间，他在普林斯顿高等研究院整理哥德尔文献。并在此后担任《哥德尔全集》的编辑。道森教授还是位娴熟的长笛演奏家。他和妻子谢丽尔住在宾夕法尼亚州约克郡，两人在编辑工作和音乐爱好上琴瑟和谐。

约翰·道森(John W.Dawson Jr.)，美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学数学系教授。生于堪萨斯州威奇塔市（Wichita）。曾获美国国家优秀学者奖（National Merit Scholar）。就读于麻省理工学院，后在密歇根大学攻读博士学位，研究数理逻辑。国际公认的哥德尔研究权威。道森教授就现代逻辑学史和公理集合论写过大量文章。1982到1984年间，他在普林斯顿高等研究院整理哥德尔文献。并在此后担任《哥德尔全集》的编辑。道森教授还是位娴熟的长笛演奏家。他和妻子谢丽尔住在宾夕法尼亚州约克郡，两人在编辑工作和音乐爱好上琴瑟和谐。

From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought. Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scinti...(展开全部)

‘A glorious read, and there is a laugh on every page’ Sunday Times The Wilderness Years anr over! But not for long.At the end of Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget hiccuped off into the sunset with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy. Now, in The Edge of Reason, she discovers what it is like when you have the man of your dreams actually in your flat and he hasn't done the washing-up,not j...(展开全部)

In this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five y ears previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall, and it swarmed with soldiers and spies. On holidays i...(展开全部)

When Kapka Kassabova was a child, the borderzone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece was rumoured to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall so it swarmed with soldiers, spies and fugitives. On holidays close to the border on the Black Sea coast, she remembers playing on the beach, only miles from where an electrified fence bristled, its barbs pointing in...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 卡帕卡·卡萨波娃（Kapka Kassabova）1973年出生于保加利亚首都索非亚，1992年时跟随家人移居新西兰，现居苏格兰。曾经出版小说《和平别墅》（Villa Pacifica）、回忆录《无名之街》（Street Without a Name）和《十二分钟的爱：探戈故事》（Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story）。 . 【译者简介】 马娟娟，浙江人，国际关系学院毕业，曾在新闻媒体长期从事国际新闻工作，译有《软实力》《战略：一部历史》《以色列总理私人史》等作品。

Newton/Descartes. Einstein/Gödel. The seventeenth century had its scientific and philosophical geniuses. Why shouldn't ours have them as well? Kurt Gödel was indisputably one of the greatest thinkers of our time, and in this first extended treatment of his life and work, Hao Wang, who was in close contact with Gödel in his last years, brings out the full subtlety of Gödel's ide...(展开全部)