Machines of the Infinite

On a snowy day in Princeton, New Jersey, in March 1956, a short, owlish-looking man named Kurt Gödel wrote his last letter to a dying friend. Gödel addressed John von Neumann formally even though the two had known each other for decades as colleagues at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton....

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Published inThe Best Writing on Mathematics 2013 Vol. 4; pp. 67 - 76
Main Author Pavlus, John
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Published United States Princeton University Press 19.01.2014
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Abstract On a snowy day in Princeton, New Jersey, in March 1956, a short, owlish-looking man named Kurt Gödel wrote his last letter to a dying friend. Gödel addressed John von Neumann formally even though the two had known each other for decades as colleagues at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Both men were mathematical geniuses, instrumental in establishing the U.S. scientific and military supremacy in the years after World War II. Now, however, von Neumann had cancer, and there was little that even a genius like Gödel could do except express a few overoptimistic pleasantries and then change
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Applied sciences
Behavioral sciences
Betting
Biological sciences
Biology
Bubbles
Cell biology
Cells
Computer engineering
Computer programming
Computer science
Computer software
Constructivism
Cytology
Epistemology
Gambling
Games
Gases
Genetic epistemology
Jigsaw puzzles
Leisure studies
Mathematical knowledge
MATHEMATICS
Matter
Neurons
Philosophy
Physical sciences
Physics
Popular science
Puzzles
Recreation
Search engines
Soap bubbles
Software applications
States of matter
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