Kurt Gödel: The Genius of Metamathematics - Paperbackby William D. Brewer (Author) Back Jacket During his lifetime, Kurt Gdel was not well known outside the professional world of mathematicians, philosophers and theoretical physicists. Early in his career, for his doctoral thesis and then for his Habilitation (Dr. Sci.), he wrote earthshaking articles on the completeness and provability of mathematical logical systems, upsetting the hypotheses of the most famous mathematicians philosophers of the time.