Associations to the word «Gödel»

Wiktionary

GÖDEL NUMBER, noun. (logic) A number uniquely assigned to each symbol, and to each well-formed formula of some formal language.

Dictionary definition

GODEL, noun. United States mathematician (born in Austria) who is remembered principally for demonstrating the limitations of axiomatic systems (1906-1978).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope