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But there is a whole story (indeed more interesting than Oppenheimer) in the walks Albert Einstein had with Kurt Gödel.
Mathematics suggested that time travel is physically possible – and Kurt Gödel proved it. Mathematician Karl Sigmund explains how the polymath did it ...
“Journey to the Edge of Reason,” by Stephen Budiansky, is an illuminating new biography of the groundbreaking mathematician.
The genius logician Kurt Gödel gave his name to his famous Incompleteness Theorems, which in the 1930s helped define the limits of both logic and mathematics. It might be thought that the ...
In 1931, the Austrian logician Kurt Gödel pulled off arguably one of the most stunning intellectual achievements in history. Mathematicians of the era sought a solid foundation for mathematics: a ...
The mathematician Kurt Gödel is said to have found a way that the US constitution would allow for a dictator to take control, or so the story goes. He certainly had the mind for it.
Adam Gopnik writes about the logician Kurt Gödel’s elusive constitutional “loophole” and how any given loophole would not apply to politicians like Donald Trump and his cohort, who ...
Both Gödel and Einstein, two of the greatest minds of the 20th century, believed in a supreme being (God) — they were theists. Gödel gave to the world two proofs that have huge theological ...
You might remember Kurt Gödel. He was last seen on io9 proving the existence of God, at least in theory. Legend has it he also found an odd clause in the Constitution which proves that the United ...
On his 70th birthday, Albert Einstein received a manuscript from his friend, the logician Kurt Gödel, that mathematically demonstrated something he had conjectured, but never proven: according to ...
Kurt Gödel (one of Time magazine's “20 greatest thinkers and scientists of the twentieth century”), the clash between Arthur Eddington and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, and the hominid ...