Ad
related to: kurt gödel obituary
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Stephen Budiansky's book about Gödel's life, Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel, [55] was a New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2021. [56] Gödel was one of four mathematicians examined in David Malone 's 2008 BBC documentary Dangerous Knowledge .
Kurt Gödel in 1925. Gödel's Loophole is a supposed "inner contradiction" in the Constitution of the United States which Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and analytic philosopher Kurt Gödel postulated in 1947. The loophole would permit the American democracy to be legally turned into a dictatorship.
It was at this conference that Kurt Gödel first presented his incompleteness theorems, though just "in an off-hand remark during a general discussion on the last day". [1] The real first presentation took place in Vienna. [2] The conference was organised by Kurt Reidemeister of the University of Königsberg. [2]
Gödel's ontological proof is a formal argument by the mathematician Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) for the existence of God. The argument is in a line of development that goes back to Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109).
The timeless universe is the philosophical and ontological view that time and associated ideas are human illusions caused by our ordering of observable phenomena.Unlike most variants of presentism and eternalism, the timeless universe entirely rejects the notion of the reality of any time, arguing that it is exclusively a human illusion, and since the universe can know no time, no dimension of ...
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry located in Princeton, New Jersey.It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholars, including Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Hermann Weyl, John von Neumann, Michael Walzer, Clifford Geertz and Kurt Gödel, many of whom had emigrated from Europe to ...
Kurt Gödel (1906–1978), mathematician Michael Graves (1934–2015), architect and product designer Peter Charles Harris (1865–1951), adjutant general of the U.S. Army
From Frege to Gödel: A Source Book on Mathematical Logic 1879–1931. Harvard University Press. Bernard Meltzer (1962). On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems. Translation of the German original by Kurt Gödel, 1931. Basic Books, 1962. Reprinted, Dover, 1992. ISBN 0-486-66980-7. Raymond Smullyan (1966).