The Gödel Essays
Kurt Gödel’s Brilliant Madness
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36 min readJun 12, 2020
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“Modern math’s absolute Prince of Darkness” — David Foster Wallace
Hungarian polymath John von Neumann (1903–1957) once wrote that Kurt Gödel was “absolutely irreplaceable” and “in a class by himself”. Describing his 1931 proof of…