Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 432 pages
- Published by: AK Peters, Ltd. December 1, 2000
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1568811489
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1568811482
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Book Dimensions:
8.6 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
- Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Review
"An great read, [this] book is also a genuine contribution to the history of our time from an unexpected angle." -Joseph Frank, author of Dostoevsky "Tactful, sympathetic, but relentless, Feferman has compelled her brilliant and complicated subject to open his many secrets to her understanding and ours." -Diane Wood Middlebrook, author of Anne Sexton: A Biography "The picaresque, tragic story of Trotsky's Mexican epilogue has been told before and in detail. This glowing biography of a minor player quickens it to renewed life..[A] moving, original book." -George Steiner, The New Yorker"
Feferman's biography is based on extensive personal interviews she had with van Heijenoort during his years at Stanford. --
John Dawson, The Mathematical Intelligencer, Spring 2003Zur Lektüre wärmstens empfohlen! --
Mathematische Semesterberichte, 2002[A] moving, original book. --
George Steiner, The New Yorker
Reader Reviews
From Trotsky to Godel: The Life of Jean van Heijenoort is the true-life biography of a man in a prime position to observe twentieth-century turmoil. He served as a secretary and bodyguard to Leon Trotsky, and was intellectually and politically passionate; in his maturity, he contributed greatly to the realm of abstract philosophical logic. From Trotsky to Godel draws heavily upon interviews with van Heijenoort himself, as well as his friends, family, and colleagues. Enthusiastically recommended for anyone interested in following van Heijenoort's challenging life, and also for students of Trotsky seeking to round out their perspectives on the man and his writings.
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