Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Goedel and Undecidability
Speaker: Professor John H. Conway
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Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #5
Abstract:
Kurt Goedel was a strange and private man, whose closest friend was Albert Einstein. Goedel's profound discoveries about what we can and cannot prove in logic and mathematics will be the topic.Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2000