Harald Hanche-Olsen, in the comments on my earlier post about the Principia Mathematica, has pointed out that this months issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society is a special issue in honor of the 100th anniversary of Kurt Gödels birth. The entire issue is available for free online
I haven’t read much of the journal yet; but Martin Davis’s article The Incompleteness Theorem is a really great overview of the theorem abnd the proof, how it works, and what it means.
Good Math/Bad Math
The beauty of math; the humor of stupidity.
My dad and I went to see a Steven Hawking lecture, “Godel and the End of Physics.” It was good, though it (understandably) takes him a long time to punch in what he wants to say.
Overheard one fundie afterwards. Seems he didn’t get the point.
It’s all right for you to assert that there is a
“Notices of the AMS” special issue on Kurt Godel,
but without you having read it, surely it’s existence is unprovable ? 😉
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