GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - APRIL 19: A detailed view of the blackboard with theoretical physics equations in chalk by Alberto Ramos, Theoretical Physics Fellow and visitor, Antonio Gonzalez-Arroyo from the ...

The reticent and relentlessly abstract logician Kurt Gödel might seem an unlikely candidate for popular appreciation. But that’s what Rebecca Goldstein aims for in her new book Incompleteness, an ...

At 24, Kurt Gödel established himself as perhaps the greatest logician of the 20th century. Standing against the intellectual currents of his time, he unveiled two theorems in 1930 showing that a ...

In his “incompleteness theorems,” Austrian mathematician and philosopher Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) showed that even in mathematical systems, all truths cannot be proven and are therefore inconsistent and ...

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 ...