Get to grips with Gödel
Logician Kurt Gödel’s incompleteness theorems crushed the dream of a consistent set of basic axioms on which the foundations of mathematics could be built, and ushered in a world of unanswerable questions. Science writer Natalie Wolchover explains how Gödel “pulled off arguably one of the most stunning intellectual achievements in history” — and how mathematicians continue to come to grips with the consequences.
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