| James R. Newman |
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| newman, james r. | |
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He was the editor of the anthology ''The World of Mathematics: A small library of the literature of mathematics from A'h-mosé the Scribe to Albert Einstein , presented with commentaries and notes'' (1956), which contains exactly what it claims to. The four volume series covers many branches of mathematics and represents a 15 year effort by Newman to collect what he felt were the most important essays in the field. With essays ranging from a biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan by Newman to Bertrand Russell 's ''Definition of a Number'', the series is often praised as suitable for any level of mathematical skill. Newman also wrote ''Gödel's Proof'' (1958) with Ernest Nagel , presenting the main results of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem and the mathematical work and philosophies leading up to its discovery in a more accessible manner. This book inspired Douglas Hofstadter to take up the study of mathematical logic, write his famous book '' Gödel, Escher, Bach '', and prepare a second edition of ''Gödel's Proof'', published in 2002. EXTERNAL LINKS
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