‘Greatest logician since Leibniz or Aristotle’

Among the successful lots in a History of Science & Technology sale held by Bonhams Los Angeles (27.5/25/20/13.9% buyer’s premium) was a group of five signed and inscribed offprints from periodical publications of papers and other work by the logician, mathematician and analytic philosopher, Kurt Gödel.

Sold at $100,000 (£75,355) and dating from the years 1944-58, they had all been given to the econo…

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