Godel's Lasting Legacy

Austrian logician Kurt Gödel’s incompleteness theorems showed us the limitations of mathematics within mathematics. While math is still useful for proving scientific theorems, Gödel transformed the perception of pure mathematics in a way that still makes modern mathematicians uncomfortable. Here, leading thinkers—a mathematician, a philosopher, and a physicist—wrestle, almost literally, with the implications of Gödel’s legacy.

Watch the full program here: http://youtu.be/DfY-DRsE86s
Original program date: June 4, 2010

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