Table of Contents

1. Der Herr Warum (1920-1924) 2. Intellectual Maturation (1924-29) 3. Excursus: A Capsule History of the Development of Logic to 1928 4. Moment of Impact (1929-31) 5. Dozent in absentia (1932-37) 6. “Jetzt, Mengenlehre” (1937-39) 7. Homecoming and Hegira (1939-40) 8. Years of Transition (1940-46) 9. Philosophy and Cosmology (1946-51) 10. Recognition and Reclusion (1951-61) 11. New Light on the Continuum Problem (1961-68) 12. Withdrawal (1969-78) 13. Aftermath 14. Reflections on Gödel’s Life and Legacy

About the Author

John W. Dawson, Jr. attended M.I.T. as a National Merit Scholar before earning a doctorate in mathematical logic from the University of Michigan. An internationally recognized authority on the life and work of Kurt Godel, Dawson is the author of numerous articles on axiomatic set theory and the history of modern logic.

Reviews

Dawson's book remains a starting point for our view into the life and work of the man who gave the world incompleteness.
-- The Review of Modern Logic, March 2007