Arnold Newman’s iconic 1956 portraits of Kurt Gödel

The Gödel Essays

Kurt Gödel’s Brilliant Madness

This story is also available on Kindle and in audio format.

“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…