Math with Bad DrawingsCartoon Archive

Russell Limerick

March 9, 2017

Text only: a limerick about Bertrand Russell's foundations-of-math project being undone by Gödel's incompleteness theorems.

Use this cartoon

Free for classrooms, worksheets, slides and other non-commercial use under CC BY-NC 4.0, with credit to Ben Orlin.

Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-03-09-russell-limerick/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

"There once was a fellow named Russell / whose mind was a glorious bustle. / But when his pal Gödel / set too great a hurdle / he sighed, 'I just haven't the muscle.'"

Topics
Logic & Proof › IncompletenessLogic & Proof › Foundations of MathMath Culture › History of MathLogic & Proof › Proofs & TheoremsMathematicians & Scientists › Bertrand RussellMathematicians & Scientists › Kurt Gödel
Level
College
Themes
Poems & SongsMathematicians
People
Bertrand Russell Kurt Gödel