The God Proof [Paperback]

Jeffrey Kegler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 19, 2007

The God Proof is a novel, but it is about a real proof claimed by Kurt Gödel, Einstein's closest friend. Many people have tried to prove God's existence. You can certainly doubt that it's possible. What you can't question is that if anyone could do it, Gödel could. Time magazine called Gödel the greatest mathematician of the last century. Oppenheimer, scientific director of the project that built the atomic bomb, called Gödel "the greatest logician since Aristotle." Gödel earned his reputation with airtight proofs of unexpected results. The shy Gödel feared ridicule. He probably told Einstein about his God Proof, but he told nobody else until 1970, and he never went public. After Gödel's death, his papers were found in careful order. We know what is missing and what is not. Everything was there, with two exceptions: the notebooks with his work on the God Proof.

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About the Author

Jeffrey Kegler is a published mathematician and former Lecturer at the Yale Medical School who lives in Northern California. He has spent most of his life in the software business, and for many years maintained a solo practice not unlike Josh's in the novel. In 2000 he hit it lucky in the stock market and decided to take time off to write this novel. Jeffrey is the author or coauthor of numerous technical publications. The God Proof is his first novel.

Product Details

• Paperback: 308 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace (March 19, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1434807355
• ISBN-13: 978-1434807359
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,004,627 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Woth reading if you are looking for a fresh intellectual prospective, January 9, 2012

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This review is from: The God Proof (Paperback)

I am surprised to be the first person to write a review for this 2007 book. I never wrote a book review before. Usually I find reviews by someone who is better at doing that. Perhaps it is fitting for the first book ever written by this author to receive a first review ever written by this reader. I suspect that the reason for such low profile is that the book was not actively marketed. I see no other reason for such fine work to remain unnoticed.

This book does not easily falls into any category. I would call it a philosophical mystery novel. In my personal library I would place it somewhere between the volumes by Douglas Hofstadter and Umberto Eco. The book attempts to intertwine a rigorous historical and intellectual investigation of 20th century most celebrated mathematical work with spiritual journey and legal case. This connection is accomplished mostly at the intellectual level, suggesting the author's point of view on deep philosophical relationship between personal, social and metaphysical realms of existence. However, in my view the book lacks a psychological depth required to make a convincing literary and historical connection between the main characters and their lives. I have enjoyed the philosophical discussion of Goedel's work much more than other threads superimposed over it somewhat artificially. At the same time I must thank the author for being bold in his effort to bring the important and difficult subject to a broad audience.