Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science

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A dazzling group biography of the early twentieth-century thinkers who transformed the way in which the world thought of math and science
Inspired by Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity and Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert’s pursuit of the fundamental rules of mathematics, one of the most most brilliant minds of the generation came together in post-World War I Vienna to offer the recent theories in mathematics, science, and philosophy and to build a strong foundation for scientific investigation. Composed of such luminaries as Kurt Gödel and Rudolf Carnap, and stimulated by the works of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper, the Vienna Circle left an indelible mark on science.
Exact Thinking in Demented Times tells the steadily outrageous, every now and then tragic, and never boring stories of the lads who transformed scientific thought. A revealing work of history, this landmark book will pay tribute to people who dared to reinvent knowledge from the ground up.
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