Ariel Swartley is a contributing writer and book critic for Los Angeles magazine. THE wild-eyed mad scientist has been a staple of popular imagination since the early 19th century, when Mary Shelley ...
I greatly enjoyed Palle Yourgrau’s essay (“Gödel and Einstein: Friendship and Relativity,” The Chronicle Review, December 17). This otherwise excellent piece contains one dubious assertion, however: ...
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His incompleteness theorems destroyed the search for a mathematical theory of everything. Nearly a century later, we’re still coming to grips with the consequences. In 1931, the Austrian logician Kurt ...