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From Trotsky to Gödel
This story of a highly intelligent observer of the turbulent 20th century who was intimately involved as the secretary and bodyguard to Leon Trotsky is based on extensive interviews with the subject, Jean van Heijenoort, and his family, friends, and colleagues. The author has captured the personal drama and the professional life of her protagonist--ranging from the political passion of a young intellectual to the scientific and historic work in the most abstract and yet philosophically important area of logic--in a very readable narrative.
Politics, Logic, and Love
Van Heijenoort became a member of the exiled Trotsky's inner circle at the age of 20, following and living with Trotsky until his assassination in 1940. In 1948, van Heijenoort renounced Marxism and entered academia in the US. Feferman interviewed him over the course of three years and here recounts the events of his life and evolution of his thinking. Available from AK Peters, Ltd., 289 Linden Street, Wellesley, MA 02181. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Logical Writings
In 1968 Jean van Heijenoort published an edition of Herbrand's collected logic papers (Herbrand 1968). The core of the present volume comprises translations of these papers and of the biographical notes also appearing in that edition. With two exceptions, this is their first appearance in English; the exceptions are Chap. 5 of Herbrand's thesis and Herbrand 1931c, both of which appeared in van Heijenoort 1967, the former trans lated by Burton Dreben and van Heijenoort, and the latter by van Heijenoort. These two translations have been reprinted here, thanks to the permission ofthe Harvard University Press, with only minor changes. The remainder of the present translations are my own; I am gr...
With Trotsky in Exile
"In 1982 a young Frenchman, an active member of the small Trotskyite group in Paris, was invited to join the exiled Trotsky to serve as his secretary, translator, and bodyguard. He was twenty years old when he arrived at the Turkish island of Prinkipo, where Trotsky and his wife had been living since their expulsion from Russia in 1929. He stayed with them for seven years, at Prinkipo, in France, briefly in Norway, and finally, from January 1937 to November 1939--nine months prior to Trotsky's assassination--in the Mexican town of Coyoacán. In this small book Mr. van Heijenoort gives his recollections of those years, based on memory, on notes he kept at the time, and on documents in the Trotsky archives at Harvard. He does not attempt a full-length portrait of Trotsky or an analysis of his character or his ideas; his purpose is to set down, for the record, incidents and details that are known to himself alone, and also to correct factual errors that have appeared in published works. As a primary document, his narrative will be of great value to students and biographers of Leon Trotsky."--Jacket.
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Reinventing Games Indie Style
This practical handbook on independent game development offers expert tips on how to make successful games on your own terms. Readers will learn best practices for choosing the right game ideas, developing them efficiently, making gameplay fun, polishing a game for release, and taking games to market. Top indie game developers provide their advice, tips and tricks, and post-mortems of their experiences in hopes of encouraging more aspiring game makers to create innovative and fun games on their own.
From Frege to Gödel
Gathered together here are the fundamental texts of the great classical period in modern logic. A complete translation of Gottlob Frege’s Begriffsschrift—which opened a great epoch in the history of logic by fully presenting propositional calculus and quantification theory—begins the volume, which concludes with papers by Herbrand and by Gödel.
International Business
"We have continued to evolve the structure and content of this textbook in step with the rapidly changing world of international business. This includes completely revising several key chapters, including Chapter 6, on International Trade. This is entirely updated and includes new case studies covering both the trade-war between the US and China and the complex Brexit process. These and other real-world developments have made a wide range of stakeholders much more aware of the significance of global trade interdependencies than in the past. Chapter 16 on the European Union is also entirely updated to take account of Brexit and a range of new socio-political and economic events in Europe. Cha...
Frege and Gödel
This volume, a shortened edition of Mr. van Heijenoort's internationally acclaimed From Frege to Gödel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931 (HUP 1967), makes available in English the two most important works in the growth of modern mathematical logic. Heralded by Leibniz, modern logic had its beginnings in the work of Boole, DeMorgan, and Jevons, but the 1879 publication of Gottlob Frege's Begriffsschrift opened a great epoch in the history of logic with the full-form presentation of the propositional calculus and quantification theory. Frege and Gödel: Two Fundamental Texts in Mathematical Logic begins with this short book, which ushered in the classical age of mathematical log...
On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems
First English translation of revolutionary paper (1931) that established that even in elementary parts of arithmetic, there are propositions which cannot be proved or disproved within the system. Introduction by R. B. Braithwaite.
