"All Cretans are liars", said Epimenides, a Cretan. But this means that his statement must be a lie too. But then it is false that Cretans are liars and the statement must be true. So what now?
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 ...
Kurt Gödel was one of the foremost mathematicians and logicians of the 20th century, best known for his famous incompleteness theorem, which tells us that there are mathematical 'blind spots': parts ...
How Gödel Destroyed Search for Math's Theory of Everything | RealClearScienceMathematicians of the era sought a solid foundation for mathematics: a set of basic mathematical facts, or axioms, that was ...
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Mathematicians say they've proven the universe can't be a simulation
A team of physicists claims to have killed the simulation hypothesis with math. According to Science Daily, researchers led ...
Success story: Indian-origin Eshan Chattopadhyay has been awarded the prestigious Gödel Award. We share with you his journey from IIT Kanpur to becoming an assistant professor at the Cornell ...
We are sometimes inclined to make celebrities out of intellectuals despite—or perhaps precisely because of—their producing work we can never hope to understand. Bertrand Russell’s oddly old-fashioned ...
Mark Colyvan: That's right. So mathematical logic is just fleshing out that basic idea but using quite a bit of mathematical machinery to do it. And the other side of it is using that mathematical ...
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