How long does it take to read Gödel's Proof?
Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman
Gödel's Proof by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman takes about 2 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 10 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1958. 118 pages, about 32,450 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 36 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 41 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In 1931 Kurt Godel published his fundamental paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of "Principia Mathematica" and Related Systems." This revolutionary paper challenged certain basic assumptions underlying much research in mathematics and logic. Godel received public recognition of his work in 1951 when he was awarded the first Albert Einstein Award for achievement in the natural sciences--perhaps the highest award of its kind in the United States. The award committee described his work in mathematical logic as "one of the greatest contributions to the sciences in recent times." However, few mathematicians of the time were equipped to understand the young scholar's complex proof. Ernest Nagel and James Newman provide a readable and accessible explanation to both scholars and non-specialists of the main ideas and broad implications of Godel's discovery. It offers every educated person with a taste for logic and philosophy the chance to understand a previously difficult and inaccessible subject. With a new introduction by Douglas R. Hofstadter, this book will appeal students, scholars, and professionals in the fields of mathematics, computer science, logic and philosophy, and science.
Subjects: Gödel's theorem, Mathematics, Metamathematics, Gödel, Théorème de, Logique symbolique et mathématique, Philosophie
