Full name: A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein

Author: Palle Yourgrau Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Philosophy, Non Fiction, History, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780465092949 0465092942

In 1942, the logician Kurt Godel and Albert Einstein became close friends; they walked to and from their offices every day, exchanging ideas about science, philosophy, politics, and the lost world of German science. By 1949, Godel had produced a remarkable proof: In any universe described by the Theory of Relativity, time cannot exist. Einstein endorsed this result reluctantly but he could find no way to refute it, since then, neither has anyone else. Yet cosmologists and philosophers alike have proceeded as if this discovery was never made. In A World Without Time, Palle Yourgrau sets out to restore Godel to his rightful place in history, telling the story of two magnificent minds put on the shelf by the scientific fashions of their day, and attempts to rescue the brilliant work they did together. Similar books: E=mc2 by David Bodanis The World As I See It by Albert Einstein Einstein's Cosmos by Michio Kaku Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps by Peter Galison Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein The End of Certainty by Ilya Prigogine The Book of Nothing by John D. Barrow When Einstein Walked with Godel by Jim Holt The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch The Outer Limits of Reason by Noson S. Yanofsky Introducing Time by Craig Callender The Recursive Universe by William Poundstone The Ambidextrous Universe by Martin Gardner Lost in Math by Sabine Hossenfelder The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh Zero by Charles Seife Kant by Manfred Kuehn Uncertainty by David Lindley The Devil's Doctor by Philip Ball