g?del, kurt

Chronicles the friendship between Albert Einstein and logician Kurt Godel, focusing on how the two friends worked together to try and prove that time does not exist in the universe.

Discusses the unity among Johann Sebastian Bach's multifaceted compositions, graphic artist M.C. Escher's paradoxical drawings, and the mathematical concepts of Kurt Godel, exploring the Strange Loop phenomenon that occurs in all their work, in which moving upwards or downwards through the levels of a hierarchical system leads right back to the beginning.

Discusses the unity among Johann Sebastian Bach's multifaceted compositions, graphic artist M.C. Escher's paradoxical drawings, and the mathematical concepts of Kurt Godel, exploring the Strange Loop phenomenon that occurs in all their work, in which moving upwards or downwards through the levels of a hierarchical system leads right back to the beginning.

Examines the life and work of mathematician and logician, Kurt Godel, briefly looking at his early scholarly life, then describing the elements of contradiction is his life that lead to his formulation of the Incompleteness Theorem--a groundbreaking work in twentieth century science.