A (very) Brief History of Kurt Gödel 

I can not find the source but I remembered reading that John von Neumann was present when Gödel first presented his Incompleteness theorem and was the only person in the crowd that understood what it actually meant. Von Neumann had a great admiration of Gödel. He campaign to have Gödel be accepted full time at Princeton saying "How can any of us be called professor when Gödel is not?".

Today, while watching the Limits of knowledge, I discovered Kurt Gödel. The man should be known by all western civilization. I think he has been swept under the rug of scientism.

Thanks for your clarity. I'm an 83 y.o. "recovering math phobic." both fascinated and intimidated by Hofstadter's famous book. If I finish it and go further with Godel, you'll have done me an astonishing kindness.

Beautiful work, moderndaymath!

Gödel left in his papers a fourteen-point outline of his philosophical beliefs, that are dated around 1960. They show his deep belief in the rational structure of the world. Here are his 14 points: The world is rational. Human reason can, in principle, be developed more highly (through certain techniques). There are systematic methods for the solution of all problems (also art, etc.). There are other worlds and rational beings of a different and higher kind. The world in which we live is not the only one in which we shall live or have lived. There is incomparably more knowable a priori than is currently known. The development of human thought since the Renaissance is thoroughly intelligible (durchaus einsichtige). Reason in mankind will be developed in every direction. Formal rights comprise a real science. Materialism is false. The higher beings are connected to the others by analogy, not by composition. Concepts have an objective existence. There is a scientific (exact) philosophy and theology, which deals with concepts of the highest abstractness; and this is also most highly fruitful for science. Religions are, for the most part, bad- but religion is not.

Great job as always, thank you!

Great work as always. A sad ending for Gödel... Starving to death is definitely towards the bottom of the list of ways I want to go.

This is a super video. Thanks for making it.

Oh yes I totally needed one of these

Ay another one got released! Looking forward to bingeing all the episodes I missed lol

Great series.

completely enjoyed. graze

Vienna calling. Thanks for the video. I've shared your video around a bit, if you don't mind.

In those days, a Privatdozent never got paid “from the university”. One with this qualification was allowed to post courses and interested students would sign-up, gather together and agree upon a set time to meet. It was at the prerogative of the students who attended {and anyone, like other faculty members & approved private citizens} to personally pay a ‘recommended’ sum of money or ‘’give what they could.” BTW, for future reference (because I see this all the time by those who either do not know German or have never studies in Germany) the terms: Extraordinarius Professor does ‘not’ mean an ‘extraordinary’ {as in super brilliant, or Genius professor), rather, almost just the opposite, it means ‘’Adjunct or Assistant” professor. A Dozent is more of an ‘Instructor or adjunct’. An ‘Ordinarius Professor’ is a Full Professor, …and, btw, even in Germany today, to become a full professor {Ordinarius} one must *earn* the degree for this position, and that [so-called] ‘Professor’ degree is the ‘Habilitationschrift’ {Habilitation Thesis}, which only can be done ‘after’ a doctoral degree. (( I wrote two doctoral dissertations at Hamburg University (1975-1980; then 1980-1983), the second one ‘in German.’ }}

He has a cool cameo in Oppenheimer (2023).

Why didn't Godel just learn to prepare his own meals? He could have sourced his own food, asked his wife where she shopped and made his own food. The fact he didn't do that tells me that it was a bit more than being scared of being of being poisoned as Godel must have known he could die by starvation too. Plenty of people have been scared of being poisoned but they don't all starve themselves to death if one particular trusted person cannot make their food. Godel seems to have trapped himself in his own logic prison when it came to eating food.

The story of him eating food only by his wife is heartbreaking but the fact that he couldn't prepare his own food and relied on a woman to prepare his food shows how dangerous religion and faith can be for health.

he easily could of had a damaged heart, rheumatic fever and infection in general often spreads to the heart and causes valve damage and other kinds of damage. He easily could of had heart damage and indeed wasn't a hypochondriac on that point. Who ACTUALLY knows though, but there isn't zero reason to suspect heart damage. As someone personally who has had heart damage from a "normal fever" type illness. It can happen, and it could of easily happened to him.

I could think of ways to convince any person having any trace of sanity to eat. For example, I would share the meal with him proving to him that it is not poisoned.

Girdel knew water turn into drop this becoming vapor is the answer to his computation

Couldn't someone convince him that not eating will result in him dying and that is the same as getting poisoned?

10:34 Wait, what? What? How does that follow???

Great video and you do a great job of trying to get the pronunciation of foreign names right. Note that "Privatdozent" is pronounced like "preewatdotcent", i.e., the "z" is not spoken like an "s" but rather like a "ts" (or "tc") sound.

Sorry, Einstein was ‘ηενεr’ a member of Princeton’s Faculty.

Jesus, imagine getting nerfed in your office by your PhD student wtf bro

That was beautiful, but odd and untrue quote from him on the end. His own theorems prove that we can never know all of mathematics even in principal. If we want to have consistent system of mathematical axioms and theorems, it must be incomplete. Nevertheless, Godel is my #3 greatest mind of all time, after Cantor and Archimedes.

Gertle and Einshtein eh?

"essentially web-md him self" 😂

The Institute for Advanced Study is in no way connected to Princeton University, at least during Einstein & Gödel’s time, and there was even some quite cold relations between the two institutions.

4 years before godel was born makes no sense the older brother was also a godel.

I know it says a very brief history... but you missed the line where his wife fought off the nazi thugs with an umbrella!

Unusual death

GB: Mathematical axioms themselves are "neither provable nor disprovable". - The discovery of Spanish wax is the process, isn't it... The sky is blue and the grass is green... like. H: Már maguk a matematikai axiómák is "se nem bizonyíthatóak, se nem cáfolhatóak". - Spanyol viasz felfedezése a folyamat ugye... Kék az ég és zöld a fű ... szerű.

There is an inaccuracy in your presentation. For Godel's incompleteness theorem only applies to axiomatic systems that contain natural number theory, or Peano's axioms. Hilbert had already shown that Euclidean geometry was complete.

Educate yourself. Gentzen's consistency proof

Daniil Kharms, the Russian writer, starved himself to death, in a psychiatric hospital....

Do you think he had autism or Asperger’s?

austrio-hungarian? Really?