When Einstein Walked with Gödel
Excursions to the Edge of Thought
by Jim Holt · first published 2018
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In the book "When Einstein Walked with Gödel" by Jim Holt, It seems like that assumption is not as clear as it seems. I am not able to articulate it well enough and I don't have the book at hand. If my recall is accurate then there is a bit of a question if there exists a "final number".
on “The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than It Should Be” ↗According to the book "When Einstein Walked with Gödel" Einstein was not comfortable with all the attention and adoration he was receiving. One of the reason Einstein and Gödel spent a lot of time together was that he did not care how famous Einstein was, and was not afraid to disagree. He was also not shy about sharing his own work with Einstein.
on “Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity” ↗Coincidentally, I'm reading When Einstein Walked with Godel, and this anecdote is in there. Such an interesting man -- he's up there with Von Neumann for historical figures I'd like to learn more about, as the work they develop is a form of first principles that…
on “Kurt Gödel and the romance of logic” ↗