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Title: What is it?
Review: I read this book several years ago, and again recently. I did not find it the masterpiece that it is touted to be. The explication of the Incompleteness Theorems, unlike Gödel's paper, is very mystifying. Most of the reviewers, while awarding many stars to this book, admit their own mystification, and, surprisingly, cite this as rationale for the book's depth! If you really want to understand the Incompleteness phenomenon in arithmetic, and how it is tied to recursive axiomatizability, look elsewhere. Most textbooks on mathematical logic are better, and less pendantic.On the other hand, I did not dislike the book. It reminds one of the kind of discourse that occurs when the acid is mellow and infused with some speed. Interesting, but without many ramifications for real life. And there are many, many other books of greater charm and import, that will never come close to obtaining the Pulitzer.
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