
Jacob Leff
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This is a great book about the life of Kurt Godel that recounts the story of his life as well as his ideas. There's the "influences" of Cantor, Russell, and Wittgenstein as well as the "influenced" of Turing, von Neumann, and Einstein. Goldstein also goes into great detail about the platonistic worldview of Godel and it's influence on his work. The decision to focus on the friendship between Einstein and Godel also worked really well and the narrative together. And of course, the narrator Tom Perkins does a world class job and made it very easy to listen to hours of this book on end.