1. Truth, Incompleteness And the Gödelian Way.
- Author
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Rothstein, Edward
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GODEL'S theorem , *INCOMPLETENESS theorems , *RELATIVITY , *HEISENBERG uncertainty principle , *SCIENTIFIC discoveries , *PLATONISTS , *PHILOSOPHERS , *MATHEMATICS , *THEORY of knowledge , *COGNITION & culture , *COMPLETENESS theorem , *FOUNDATIONS of arithmetic , *MATHEMATICAL logic , *NUMBER theory , *SCIENTISTS - Abstract
Focuses on scientists Albert Einstein, Kurt Gödel and Werner Heisenberg. Observation that three major discoveries in the 20th century took on their names; Reference to Rebecca Goldstein's book "Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel"; Relationship of Einstein and Gödel, who both fled Nazi Germany and ended up in Princeton, New Jersey; Significance of Gödel's mathematical theorem; Suggestion that, like Einstein, Gödel was a Platonist.
- Published
- 2005