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.
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I've been getting so many requests for "basics" posts that I'm having trouble keeping up! There are so many basic things in math that non-mathematicians are confused about.
The Pythagorean theorem made a big impression on me when I first saw it in middle school. It was probably the first genuinely non-trivial theorem that I learned. The theorem is simple to state and to understand, but it is not at all obvious.
“What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.” -Theodore Roethke
I'm away on vacation this week, taking my kids to Disney World. Since I'm not likely to have time to write while I'm away, I'm taking the opportunity to re-run some old classic posts which were first posted in the summer of 2006. These posts are mildly revised.
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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ESE senor no me gusta.