Kurt Gödel
1906 - 1978
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Gödel proved fundamental results about axiomatic systems showing in any axiomatic mathematical system there are propositions that cannot be proved or disproved within the axioms of the system.
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| Honours awarded to Kurt Gödel (Click below for those honoured in this way) | |
| Speaker at International Congress | 1950 |
| AMS Gibbs Lecturer | 1951 |
| LMS Honorary Member | 1967 |
| Fellow of the Royal Society | 1968 |
| Popular biographies list | Number 74 |
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- Karlis Podnieks (An introduction to Gödel's theorem)
- Mathematical Genealogy Project
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