In 1931, the Austrian logician Kurt Gödel pulled off arguably one of the most stunning intellectual achievements in history. Mathematicians of the era sought a solid foundation for mathematics: a set ...

In “Journey to the Edge of Reason,” Stephen Budiansky’s wonderfully engrossing new biography of the Austrian-born logician Kurt Gödel, some light is shed on a famous story. Gödel is legendary for ...

Gödel has argued that we can cultivate the intuition or 'perception' of abstract concepts in mathematics and logic. Gödel's ideas about the intuition of concepts are not incidental to his later ...

The reticent and relentlessly abstract logician Kurt Gödel might seem an unlikely candidate for popular appreciation. But that’s what Rebecca Goldstein aims for in her new book Incompleteness, an ...

ZOARVILLE ‒ Brynn Goedel has returned to school and is making steady progress after being severely injured in a bus crash on I-70 on Nov. 14 that claimed the lives of six Tuscarawas Valley School ...

Photo by Brett Dunlap Kelly Goedel is the new executive director of the Wood County Senior Citizens Association. She has been on the job for over a month and is looking to grow the services the ...

In the words of Dr. Lawrence M. Krauss, space and time cannot contain the fundamental laws of physics because they generate them. Based on fresh mathematical work, the observation challenges one of ...

Srećko Kovač, On causality as the fundamental concept of Gödel's philosophy, Synthese, Vol. 197, No. 4, Special Issue on Logical Perspectives on Science and Cognition – The Philosophy of Gerhard ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. In 1947, having left Nazi-occupied Vienna for the quaint idyll of Princeton, N.J., seven years ...

A picture taken in Princeton, New Jersey, in August 1950 shows Albert Einstein standing next to the Austrian logician Kurt Gödel. Both men are looking at the camera. Einstein is wearing a rumpled ...