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==== Rebecca Goldstein 2005 - 510.92 GOL - Tigard Library ==== | ==== Rebecca Goldstein 2005 / 510.92 GOL / Tigard Library ==== This book seems mostly about the Vienna and Princeton of Gödel and contemporaries, not mathematics. I plodded, then skimmed, then abandoned it. .p71 satirical journalist [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kraus_(writer) | Karl Kraus ]] epigrams: .- The psychoanalyst picks our dreams as if they were our pockets .- The secret of the demagogue is to appear as dumb as his audience so that these people can believe themselves as smart as he is |
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The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
Rebecca Goldstein 2005 / 510.92 GOL / Tigard Library
This book seems mostly about the Vienna and Princeton of Gödel and contemporaries, not mathematics. I plodded, then skimmed, then abandoned it.
p71 satirical journalist Karl Kraus epigrams:
- - The psychoanalyst picks our dreams as if they were our pockets
- - The secret of the demagogue is to appear as dumb as his audience so that these people can believe themselves as smart as he is