‘In effect, the absolute certainty that humanity had long pursued and that mathematics and logic had long promised was illusory. Despite Hilbert’s optimism, mathematics, like life, was destined to be haunted by uncertainty.’ 

Nick Spencer writes in the Financial Times Life & Arts on a new biography of Kurt Gödel, “the greatest logician since Aristotle”, as Einstein called him.

Read the article here.

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