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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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A friend of his, Kurt Godel, was the first to prove that there is a solution to Einstein's equations which shows it is possible.
Mellor, Kurt Godel, Hillary Stein, David Lewis, and Christine Miller.
However, Kurt Godel showed in 1931 that, given any finite set of rules for doing mathematics, there will always be some mathematical statements that can neither be proved nor disproved by using these rules.
 
 
 
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