Gödel

American  

[gœd-l] / ˈgœd l /

noun

1. Kurt 1906–78, U.S. mathematician and logician, born in Austria-Hungary.

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Gödel British  

/ ˈɡɜːdəl /

noun

1. Kurt (kʊrt). 1906–78, US logician and mathematician, born in Austria-Hungary. He showed ( Gödel's proof ) that in a formal axiomatic system, such as logic or mathematics, it is impossible to prove consistency without using methods from outside the system

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Gödel Scientific  

/ gŭd′l /

1. Austrian-born American mathematician who in 1931 published the most important axiom in modern mathematics, known as Gödel's proof. It states that in any finite mathematical system, there will always be statements that cannot be proved or disproved. Gödel's proof ended efforts by mathematicians to find a mathematical system that was entirely consistent in itself.

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In 1991 Douglas Hofstadter, the author of Gödel, Escher, Bach, organized scientists to write letters to the Nobel Committee recommending Wu for the physics prize.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 16, 2023

Gödel was indeed able to prove that the existence of something, which he defined as divine, necessarily follows from certain assumptions.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 4, 2022

The Pulitzer Prize-winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach inspired legions of computer scientists in 1979, but few were as inspired as Melanie Mitchell.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 6, 2021

Gödel was born in 1906 to a prosperous German-speaking family in Brünn, in the Moravian part of the Hapsburg Empire.

From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2021

Gödel refused the nihilistic conclusion drawn by some from his work: that because there were truths that weren’t provable, nothing mathematical was truly knowable.

From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2021