Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science by Douglas R. Hofstadter, Karl Sigmund

Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science

Douglas R. Hofstadter, Karl Sigmund

480 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy science informative medium-paced
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A dazzling group biography of the early twentieth-century thinkers who transformed the way the world thought about math and scienceInspired by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert's pursuit of the fundament...

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