I had a math professor who was shaped like a very large pear. He had fishbowl glasses, so that his eyes seemed to swim around and sometimes leak to the edges of the lenses. He presented Gödel’s Proof to us, hunching closer and closer to the chalkboard, and every now and then turning around and beaming at us. His audience was about four barefoot, long-haired guys in Army Surplus clothes, and me, barefoot and long-haired in Army Surplus but a chick, not a guy. At the end of the proof, he stood back, spread his arms, and just smiled at us. We applauded.
A certain fellow lover of logic with bright orange hair gifted it to me, after reading it herself. There is a lot of discussion of Gödel’s relationship with Einstein; quite interesting actually. One comment she made when she gave it to me was that a lot of aspects of their relationship she thought similar to that between her and I – me, of course, being the exemplification of Gödel, and her Einstein, mainly because I’m the dark, reclusive, serious one, and she is light-hearted, sociable, and finds so much comical. Hah. In the very least, I know that by the end of the book, I’ll probably back into my obsession with logics, and good thing, considering the advanced logic course is coming up again, and I’ll be sitting in on it, again. If you’d like to join me, three mornings a week…
Wow. ‘Now who would have thought of that?’
I had a math professor who was shaped like a very large pear. He had fishbowl glasses, so that his eyes seemed to swim around and sometimes leak to the edges of the lenses. He presented Gödel’s Proof to us, hunching closer and closer to the chalkboard, and every now and then turning around and beaming at us. His audience was about four barefoot, long-haired guys in Army Surplus clothes, and me, barefoot and long-haired in Army Surplus but a chick, not a guy. At the end of the proof, he stood back, spread his arms, and just smiled at us. We applauded.
When I read it as a wee little undergrad, good lord, I was ecstatic, absolutely in love.
I have been reading this: http://books.google.com/books?id=qV4DJlEcDpMC&dq=incompleteness:+the+proof+and+paradox+of+kurt+godel&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=TU6GSpXvCYrWtgOHirSqBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#v=onepage&q=&f=false
A certain fellow lover of logic with bright orange hair gifted it to me, after reading it herself. There is a lot of discussion of Gödel’s relationship with Einstein; quite interesting actually. One comment she made when she gave it to me was that a lot of aspects of their relationship she thought similar to that between her and I – me, of course, being the exemplification of Gödel, and her Einstein, mainly because I’m the dark, reclusive, serious one, and she is light-hearted, sociable, and finds so much comical. Hah. In the very least, I know that by the end of the book, I’ll probably back into my obsession with logics, and good thing, considering the advanced logic course is coming up again, and I’ll be sitting in on it, again. If you’d like to join me, three mornings a week…
For a modern rendition, see: http://www.research.ibm.com/people/h/hirzel/papers/canon00-goedel.pdf