Simon Ings

Waiting for Gödel is over: the reclusive genius emerges from the shadows

The Austrian mathematician’s archive, written in archaic shorthand and only recently decyphered, is finally given human shape by Stephen Budiansky

Kurt Gödel, photographed at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, where he was ‘too alone’, according to his friend Oskar Morgenstern. Credit: Alamy
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  • Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel

    Stephen Budiansky

    OUP, pp. 355, £20

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