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Math Epitaph: Russell and Gödel

November 29, 2017Original blog post

Two graves: 'Bertrand Russell's dream of axiomatizing all mathematics, murdered by Kurt Gödel' and 'Kurt Gödel, murdered by Bertrand Russell'.

Content note: Says 'murdered'.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-11-29-epitaphs-in-the-graveyard-of-mathematics--math-epitaph-russell-and-g-del/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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Two graves: 'Bertrand Russell's dream of axiomatizing all mathematics, murdered by Kurt Gödel' and 'Kurt Gödel, murdered by Bertrand Russell'.

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