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Kurt Godel

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Noun1.Kurt Godel - United States mathematician (born in Austria) who is remembered principally for demonstrating the limitations of axiomatic systems (1906-1978)


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00) follows the close friendship of physicist Albert Einstein and logician Kurt Godel during the last decade and a half of Einstein's life.
Concerning Bertrand Russell ["He Didn't Add Up," September 28]: While Wittgenstein may have created the aura of doubt about Principia Mathematica's ambition to create a consistent and complete account of arithmetic, it was Kurt Godel who drove the mathematical stake through the book's heart.
Kurt Godel, the mathematician popularized in Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher Bach, came to the institute in 1940, but after his permanent appointment in 1953, he virtually stopped publishing.
 
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