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From: "Charles Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Forum for the discussion of theoretical issues raised by Karl Marx
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Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 7:48 PM
Subject: [Marxism-Thaxis] Does Gödel Matter?
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> Let's face it constitutions and a
This is as good a way as any to celebrate Einstein's birthday. Cheers.
I read the first 50 pages of Rebecca Goldstein's new book on Goedel,
INCOMPLETENESS. A good read read. I loved Goldstein's first novel THE
MIND-BODY PROBLEM. I saw here about the time she was hawking her third or
fourth b
Re : "Charles Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Does Gödel Matter?
The romantic's favorite mathematician didn't prove what you think he did.
By Jordan Ellenberg
the Washington Post's SLATE/Posted Thursday, March 10, 2005, at 4:27 AM PT
The reticent and relentlessly abstract logician Kurt Gödel might seem
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/?050228crat_atlarge
TIME BANDITS
by JIM HOLT
What were Einstein and Gödel talking about?
Issue of 2005-02-28
Posted 2005-02-21
In 1933, with his great scientific discoveries behind him, Albert Einstein
came to America. He spent the last twenty-two yea
The US media is portraying the March 14 demonstration by the
U.S.-supported "Cedar Revolution" wing of the widening political crisis
as far larger than the Hezbollah protests. The Guardian is more
cautious. It was to be expected that this protest would be much larger
than the previous actions by th
It should be kept in mind that Gödel's work has, among
other things, provided the basis for theoretical computer
science. Alan Turing's work on the Halting Problem
(which gave rise to the concept of Turing machines)
came out of Turing's work in developing an alternative
proof of Gödel's Incomple
Let's face it constitutions and also law, for that matter, ain't what Locke
and the founding fathers thought them to be. Of course, we don't need Gödel
to tell us that.
Victor
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CB: I think Hegel mentions math and jurisprudence as prime areas of the
operation of formal logic.
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I actually met Goedel 30 years ago while a Princeton
undergraduate philosophy major. I looked up across the
table at the Student Center and saw him eating a
cheesesteak, a truly disgusting NJ/Philly concoction.
I was eating one too. I stammered and said, uh er, Dr,
Goedel, your work has given mea
Let's face it constitutions and also law, for that matter, ain't what Locke
and the founding fathers thought them to be. Of course, we don't need Gödel
to tell us that.
Victor
- Original Message -
From: "Charles Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Forum for the discussion of theoretical issues
Does Gödel Matter?
The romantic's favorite mathematician didn't prove what you think he did.
By Jordan Ellenberg
the Washington Post's SLATE/Posted Thursday, March 10, 2005, at 4:27 AM PT
The reticent and relentlessly abstract logician Kurt Gödel might seem an
unlikely candidate for popular app
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