Kurt Gödel’s “Incompleteness Theorem”
For Kurt Gödel, mathematics pointed to a remarkable world of transcendent order and meaningI am not a mathematician. I should preface with that. However, mathematics and its practitioners have long been a source of fascination. It poses interesting questions regarding God, underlying structure in the universe, and whether mathematics is an illusion. Over the summer, I wrote about an interview between physicist Lawrence Krauss and the novelist Cormac McCarthy. McCarthy was intrigued by physics and mathematics and ventured into topic in his final pair of novels, the interconnected volumes The Passenger and Stella Maris. In his conversation with Krauss, McCarthy said he believed that human beings created mathematics to supply the universe with the illusion of structure and comprehensibility. I don’t know if he thought the same of language itself, but if he Read More ›