Kurt Godel, mathematician and logician, was one of the most
influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Godel fled Nazi
Germany, fearing for his Jewish wife and fed up with Nazi
interference in the affairs of the mathematics institute at the
University of Gottingen. In 1933 he settled at the Institute for
Advanced Study in Princeton, where he joined the group of
world-famous mathematicians who made up its original faculty.
His 1940 book, better known by its short title, "The Consistency
of the Continuum Hypothesis," is a classic of modern mathematics.
The continuum hypothesis, introduced by mathematician George Cantor
in 1877, states that there is no set of numbers between the
integers and real numbers. It was later included as the first of
mathematician David Hilbert's twenty-three unsolved math problems,
famously delivered as a manifesto to the field of mathematics at
the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris in 1900. In
"The Consistency of the Continuum Hypothesis" Godel set forth his
proof for this problem.
In 1999, "Time" magazine ranked him higher than fellow
scientists Edwin Hubble, Enrico Fermi, John Maynard Keynes, James
Watson, Francis Crick, and Jonas Salk. He is most renowned for his
proof in 1931 of the 'incompleteness theorem, ' in which he
demonstrated that there are problems that cannot be solved by any
set of rules or procedures. His proof wrought fruitful havoc in
mathematics, logic, and beyond."
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