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Penn Mathematics Colloquium

Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 4:30pm

G. Sacks

Harvard

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL A6

Misunderstandings of the incompleteness theorem. Importance of the completeness theorem. Did Godel have a sense of humor? The mathematician versus the philosopher. Godel's optimism, Platonism and contrariness. His proof of the existence of God. The lure of secret knowledge. His views on the Continuum Hypothesis. His best work. His list of the open problems in mathematical logic.