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Nature 454, 829 (14 August 2008) | doi:10.1038/454829a; Published online 13 August 2008

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In Retrospect: Gödel's proof

Andrew Hodges1

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In today's computer age, the implications of the discovery in formal logic that Newman and Nagel articulated in 1958 are of even broader interest, says Andrew Hodges.

BOOK REVIEWEDGödel's Proof

by Ernest Nagel & James R. Newman

New York University Press: 1958. 118 pp.

Fifty years ago an unusual book appeared. Its bald and unapologetic title, Gödel's Proof, must have left the casual browser wondering who or what Gödel was.

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