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The reticent and relentlessly abstract logician Kurt Gödel might seem an unlikely candidate for popular appreciation. But that’s what Rebecca Goldstein aims for in her new book Incompleteness, an ...

In his commentary “AI, Godel and God,” John Nassivera tries to apply Kurt Godel’s “Incompleteness Theorem,” which was published in 1931, to verify the existence of God. According to Mr. Nassivera, the ...

The long-standing issue of Wittgenstein's controversial remarks on Gödel's Theorem has recently heated up in a number of different and interesting directions [(Floyd and Putnam, 2000), (Steiner, 2001) ...

Will J. Flintoft ’26 was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship last month, one of nine students from Australia to receive the honor ...

The surprise of Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorem of 1931 lay not so much in the incompleteness itself, but that it was found in so simple a mathematical theory as first-order arithmetic. It follows ...

Gödel has argued that we can cultivate the intuition or 'perception' of abstract concepts in mathematics and logic. Gödel's ideas about the intuition of concepts are not incidental to his later ...