REVIEW OF LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN: ‘REMARKS ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS’

The late Ludwig Wittgenstein was a deep and influential philosopher of science, yet outside the circle of professional philosophers little is known of the man and his work. This book is the second collection of his papers to be published since his death. The editors of Scientific American have asked me to take this occasion, not to review the book, which in any case is too specialised for the general reader, but briefly to describe who Wittgenstein was and what he did.