Kurt Gödel
28 April 1906 – 14 January 1978
Kurt Gödel was an Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher, widely regarded as one of the greatest logicians in history. He is best known for his two incompleteness theorems, which showed inherent limitations of formal axiomatic systems. He spent the later part of his career at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he was a close friend of Albert Einstein.
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Life events
Kurt Friedrich Gödel was born in Brünn (now Brno, Czech Republic), then part of Austria-Hungary.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe earned his doctorate in mathematics at the University of Vienna, where he was associated with the Vienna Circle.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe published his two incompleteness theorems, demonstrating fundamental limits on provability in formal systems.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe showed that the axiom of choice and the generalized continuum hypothesis are consistent with the axioms of set theory.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe and his wife fled Europe and emigrated to the United States after the outbreak of the Second World War.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, later becoming a full professor.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe discovered an exact solution to the equations of general relativity that permits closed timelike curves, known as the Gödel metric.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe received the inaugural Albert Einstein Award for his contributions to the natural sciences.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe died in Princeton in 1978, having refused to eat amid a fear of being poisoned.
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