Name: Incompleteness
Rating: 4.40 (1 reviews)
Author: Rebecca Goldstein

Rebecca

This portrayal provides in-depth discussion of the famed twentieth-century mathematicians' pioneering incompleteness theorem, contributions within the Vienna circle, interactions with contemporaries such as Albert Einstein, and the mathematicians' premature deaths as a result of mental instability and self-starvation. 

Patrick Collison is an Irish billionaire entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Stripe, which he started with his younger brother, John, in 2010. He won the 41st Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2005 at the age of sixteen. Collison lives in San Francisco, California.

Patrick

Incompleteness

What does it mean to be human? The top Philosophy books by philosophers, psychologists and spiritual gurus aim to answer that big question.

philosophy

Learn how the world works in the best Science and Nature books by respected experts, educators and authors in a variety of fields.

science & nature

Hear it from the horse's mouth in the top-rated Biographies and Memoirs by and about actors, athletes, politicians, musicians and other famous folk.

biographies & memoirs

Marcus

Naval Ravikant (born in 1974) is an Indian born American Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Founder, and CEO from New York. He is best known as AngelList's Founder. In addition, he is presently serving as the Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and owner of AngelList Company.

Naval

James Clear is a personal development keynote speaker and New York Times bestselling author of Atomic Habits. His entertaining talks teach audiences about small habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement.

James

Meditations

Paramahansa

Sahil Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, and an early-stage venture capitalist. Prior to founding Gumroad, Lavingia worked as a designer and engineer at virtual DJ website Turntable.fm and was an early employee at personal curation site Pinterest. He attended the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering.

Sahil

Marc Benioff is an American Internet entrepreneur with a net worth of $6.9 billion as of January 2020. He is the founder, chairman and co-CEO of Salesforce, an enterprise cloud computing company.

Marc

Autobiography of a Yogi

Henry

Nat Eliason is the CEO and founder of Growth Machine, an SEO-focused growth agency, and co-founder of Cup & Leaf Tea. He is also the author of “Come Again?” and writes about psychology, sex, money, travel, entrepreneurship, drugs, and everything else you’d find interesting at nateliason.com.

Research scientist at MIT working on human-centered AI and deep learning approaches to shared autonomy in self-driving cars. Fun fact: he's a black belt in Jiu Jitsu.

Walden

Mahatma

Joshua Waitzkin is an American chess player, martial arts competitor, and author. As a child, he was recognized as a prodigy, and won the U.S. Junior Chess championship in 1993 and 1994. The film "Searching for Bobby Fischer" is based on his early life.

Josh

Kevin Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review. He has also been a writer, photographer, conservationist, and student of Asian and digital culture.

Kevin

Gandhi

Steve Jobs was an American business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor. He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and co-founder of Apple Inc., the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar, and a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar, and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Steve

Jack Kornfield is a bestselling American author and teacher in the vipassana movement in American Theravada Buddhism. He has taught meditation worldwide since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist Mindfulness practice to the West.

Jack

Be Here Now

Anne

Bill Gates is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.

Bill

Natalie Portman is an Academy Award winning actress and filmmaker with dual Israeli and American citizenship. Portman has also earned a degree in psychology from Harvard University and is an animal activist.

Natalie

The Diary of a Young Girl

Laurence

Peter

Guy Proops is a UK based Product Manager, currently working on how to help millennials across Europe build wealth at Plum. Prior to Plum, Guy was part of the team at Spaceship where he helped grow the startup to $200+ AUM and 45,000+ customers.

Not Fade Away

Sarah

Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Trust Me, I’m Lying; The Obstacle Is the Way; Ego Is the Enemy; Conspiracy and other books about marketing, culture, and the human condition. His work has been translated into over 30 languages and has appeared everywhere from the New York Times to Fast Company. His company, Brass Check, has advised companies such as Google, TASER, and Complex, as well as multiplatinum musicians and some of the biggest authors in the world. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Ryan

How to Live

Benjamin

Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Fortune’s “40 under 40.” He is an early-stage technology investor/advisor and the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers. The Tim Ferriss Show podcast has now exceeded 400 million downloads.

Brandon Stanton is an American author, photographer, and blogger. He is the author of Humans of New York, a photoblog and book.

Brandon

Poor Richard's Almanack

Abi Tyas Tunggal is an Australian technology entrepreneur and Product Manager. He is the founder of Himalayas, Breakout Careers, and works with UpGuard on international growth. Prior to UpGuard, Abi was the first employee at Spaceship where he grew the startup to $200+ AUM and 45,000+ customers. He runs the blog and podcast, The Interleaving Effect, deep dives into evergreen ideas.

Abi Tyas Tunggal

We Learn Nothing

Plutarch

Susan Joy Fowler is an American writer and software engineer known for her role in influencing institutional changes in how Uber and Silicon Valley companies treat sexual harassment. Her business celebrity led to book and Hollywood film deals based on her experience.

Incompleteness

Rebecca Goldstein

Recommended by