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