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 ...

How Gödel Destroyed Search for Math's Theory of Everything | RealClearScience Mathematicians of the era sought a solid foundation for mathematics: a set of basic mathematical facts, or axioms, that ...

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 ...

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In his 2012 book, “Why Does the World Exist?,” Jim Holt invited a noisy swarm of physicists, theologians and novelists to stare into the abyss with him. He wanted their take on the question that had ...

Evolutionary neurobiologist Mark Changizi is obsessed with asking the question, “why?” — and as a scientist, it’s served him well. His questioning of virtually everything has led him to investigate ...

I’d like to add another interesting synthesis of logic and faith to Mike Kerrigan’s “God and Math at Dinner” (op-ed, Jan. 5). Gödel’s incompleteness theorems prove that certain mathematical methods ...