Richard Tieszen (1951-2017) was Professor of Philosophy at San José State University, located in California's Silicon Valley. The author of After Gödel: Platonism and Rationalism in Mathematics and Logic, as well as numerous other books, papers, and reviews on Gödel, the philosophy of mathematics, logic, and phenomenology, he was a visiting professor at Universiteit Utrecht in the Netherlands and Stanford University and lectured throughout the United States, Europe, and other countries.
"Tieszen's Simply Gödel is a remarkable achievement--a handy guide with the impact of a philosophical tome. It's all here: elegantly lucid discussions of Kurt Gödel's epochal discoveries, a sympathetic account of the eccentric genius's life, focused discussions of his encounters with his astonished peers, and a visionary peek into the future of mathematics, philosophy, and the on-rushing specter of robots with minds. A compact masterpiece, brimming with fresh revelations."--Rudy Rucker, author of Infinity and the Mind "It's almost impossible to get the balance right--of Gödel's mathematics, his philosophy, and life. But this amazing new addition to the Gödel canon offers an accessible and engaging account of his incompleteness theorems, his work and his friendship with Einstein, and so much more. It also offers an account of how philosophy and philosophical concerns provide an underpinning for much of his work."--Errol Morris, Oscar-award winning director of The Fog of War as well as The Thin Blue Line and A Brief History of Time "This book meets the challenge of providing a concise yet cogent non-technical overview of Gödel's life and work, which should help to clarify to laymen why Gödel has become famous and what his incompleteness theorems do and do not say."--John W. Dawson, author of Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Work of Kurt Gödel and Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Penn State York "I think Simply Gödel is a success. It doesn't talk down to its readers, but challenges them to come up to the task of trying to grasp what Gödel achieved. It combines sober, fair-minded caution in presenting Gödel's formal results in a variety of fields with an evident sympathy for Gödel's philosophy of "Platonic rationalism"--which according to Gödel both underlies and is suggested by his mathematical results--a combination that, sadly, is all too rarely found."--Palle Yourgrau, author of A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Gödel and Einstein and Harry A. Wolfson Professor of Philosophy at Brandeis University "Kurt Gödel, as a very young researcher in the 1930s, found three very major results that set the stage for extensive developments in contemporary logic, the philosophy of mathematics, and theoretical computer science. Tieszen's lucid style sets out the facts and the history of Gödel's work, life and influence. This book is an admirable accomplishment, which also helps explain the intellectual and philosophical environment in which Gödel's ideas developed."--Dana S. Scott, Emeritus University Professor of Mathematical Logic at Carnegie Mellon University "As a first guide to Gödel's universe, I heartily recommend the reflection of it that Tieszen presents in Simply Gödel. Highly readable, surveyable, and dependable, it testifies to Tieszen's great gift for teaching."--Mark van Atten, author of Essays on Gödel's Reception of Leibniz, Husserl, and Brouwer, and Senior Researcher at CNRS, Paris, France
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