Birthdate: April 28, 1906
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Brno, Czech Republic
Died: January 14, 1978
Kurt Gödel was a prominent logician, mathematician, and philosopher whose work profoundly impacted scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century. His groundbreaking discoveries in the foundations of mathematics, such as the completeness theorem and incompleteness theorems, revolutionized the field. He introduced the technique of Gödel numbering, encoding formal expressions as natural numbers, and demonstrated that certain propositions are unprovable within formal systems. Gödel’s advancements in proof theory and set theory, including his work on the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis, established him as one of the most significant logicians in history.
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