Kurt Godel's Life And Accomplishments

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Kurt Godel was born April 28, 1906 Brünn, Austria-Hungary. Kurt died January 14, 1978 Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. Godel's early life was very overwhelming he went through ailments. When was five years old he had mild anxiety neurosis, the disease entailed chronic abnormal distress and overaction of the sympathetic nervous system. In 1912 he started his education in primary school despite his ailments he was an excellent student. He graduated from Evangelische Privat-Volks-und Bürgerschule in 1916. In 1920, he developed an interest in mathematics. By 1922, he had read Kant and soon started working on university level mathematics. Editors, TheFamousPeople.com, In 1968, “He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society.” In 1923, he had to make the choice whether to focus on his physics or mathematics he leaned towards mathematics and was taught by Furtwängler, Hahn, Wirtinger, Menger, Helly and others. When making his decision if he would of chose the physics route he would not of won the first albert einstein award jointly with Julian Schwinger. Kurt Godel went to study in Austria, at …show more content…

It would make sense because everything made would not be here without god. People go to church every Wednesday and Sunday because they believe in god and they love him. There was reasoning that Godel did not believe in god but shortly after his death his wife said “although he did not go to church, he was religious and read the Bible in bed every Sunday morning.” A colleague of Kurt’s Albert Einstein left no clear clue to his beliefs about god but he did say “I want to know God’s thoughts—the rest are mere details,” as well as "God does not play dice with the Universe.” The most brilliant scientists have not been able prove or rule out the presence of god but Kurt Godel never left him out of the equation. Simply Charly’s, Godel’s God: It All Adds Up, January 7th