About this title: This is the first English translation of a revolutionary paper of 1931 that established unprovability of certain propositions in any arithmetical system.
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Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. No dustjacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Name in front, else a very good copy. 8" x 5-3/8" No dustjacket 72 pages. Reprint of the 1962 edition. Binding is Softcover. read more
Edition: REPRINT Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc., New York, NY
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780486669809ISBN:0486669807
Description: VG++ 72 pages Tradesize paperback. Owner name embossment on front endpaper, small ink date stamp, numbers(2) on rear endpaper, o.w. clean, Bright & very tight. Rest of each book Like New. ISBN 0486669807. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: OLIVER & BOYD LTD
Date Published: 1962
Description: Good. Clean tight unmarked text. page 39 has a tannish drizzle mark at top near page number. no jacket. yellow cloth boards with black binding. yellow shows some signs of dirt/smudge. text is very good. binding is tight. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh & London
Date Published: 1962
Description: Near Fine. A Near Fine hardback First Edition in English with stray ink mark fore edge in a Very Good++ Dust Jacket with mild edge wear, short closed tears. 8vo. viii, 72 pps. In 1931 Kurt Godel (1906-1978) published his astonishing insight and proof that in even the most elementary parts of arithmetic there exist propositions which can not be proved or disproved within the system. Godel's "Incompleteness Theorem" is considered one of the seminal contributions to the field of logic. It was ... read more
Description: New. First English translation of revolutionary paper (1931) that established that even in elementary parts of arithmetic, there are propositions which cannot be proved or disproved within the system. It is thus uncertain that the basic axioms of arithmet... read more
Edition: 1e, 1pr
Binding:Publisher: Oliver and Boyd, ^ in Stock: we Ship at Once fr. IL USA;
Date Published: 1962
Description: >Very Good in Good jacket. "We Ship Anywhere! And Now! Cheerfully"; Translated by B. Meltzer; Introduction by R.B. Braithwaite; this copy the first English edition, 1962; (very) handsome beige cloth with B O L D red letters on spine; jacket shows age, shelfwear and small tears; "...one of the most important contributions to logic since Aristotle"; read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Edinburgh and London, United Kingdom: Oliver & Boyd
Date Published: 1962
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. Stated 1st English edition, 1962. Translated by B. Meltzer with an introduction by R. B. Braithwaite. Cloth boards with original, burnt-orange colored dust jacket. VG/G+. Jacket is shelf worn with chipping and tears along the edges. Light bumping to corners and top/bottom of spine. Name of previous owner on FFEP has been blacked out. Three pages have small, black pen lines in the margins, else the volume is clean. 72 pages. A hard-to-find 1st edition of the English ... read more
"The greatest achievement in human thought to date, IMHO. Every family ought have a copy on their coffee table. I read this the summer after high school, and have gone back a few times. In less than one hundred pages, that silent madman Gödel will shatter your mind, put it back together with turing tape, and leave you changed forever. Minimal mathematical background is required."
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