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>I[, Gerhard Gentzen,] was taking a course with von Neumann [in Berlin] which dealt with Hilbert’s attempt to prove the consistency of classical mathematics … [I]n the middle of the course von Neumann came in one day and announced that he had just received a paper from … Gödel who showed that the objectives which Hilbert had in mind … could not be achieved at all. Von Neumann … devoted the rest of the course to the presentation of Gödel’s results. The finding evoked an enormous excitement …

>Half way into the semester we learned everything we were studying was a lie and spent the rest of the course rubbing our crushed dream into our faces
Well that is awkward...

>> No.9351534

The fucked up thing is this nigga Gentzen starved to death in a russian POW camp after the war

>> No.9351579

>>9351490
>>I[, Gerhard Gentzen,] was
No, that was Carl Hempel.

>> No.9351583

>>9351579
Gerhard Gentzen was taking the same course.

>> No.9351662

>>9351534
Well he was a Nazi, a lot of bad things happened to them after the war

>> No.9351676

hilbert conned a whole generation of mathematicians into studying set theory and logic, the dullest of all mathematical topics.
thank gödel for stopping this madness and making logic irrelevant again.

>> No.9351687

>>9351490
Aristotle was a cunt in general. Didn't liked him, nether liked pythagoras or any of the fuckers from ancient times. I only watch ancient aliens.

>> No.9351690

>>9351490

so the paper was the incompleteness theorem?

>> No.9351736

>>9351662
kek
von Braun literally invented and actively worked on the rockets that were used to kill thousands of people, but he was lucky enough to be captured by americans and worked for nasa afterward.

>> No.9352666

>>9351676
Set Theory saved mathematics from Synthetic Geometry. Be thankful.

>> No.9352706
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9352706

>You will never be on the forefront of the philosophy and mathematics of physics with von Neumann and Hilbert as Godel blows you the fuck out

>> No.9353158

>>9351662
#not all Nazis ran the gas chambers
#not all Germans were Hitler