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An Austrian and later American logician and mathematician, he is the author of the famous completeness and incompleteness theorems, which put an end to Hilbert’s founding program of mathematics by showing that there are statements that cannot be proven or disproved in a given theory.

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Biography of Kurt Gödel

Kurt Gödel, Austrian-American logician and mathematician, was born on April 28, 1906 in Brünn, 180 km southwest of Prague. He became very famous thanks to the development of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem. This mathematical genius revolutionized the logical foundations of mathematics.

The youngest son of Rudolf Gödel, director of a large textile company, and Marianne Handschuh, Kurt showed an interest in mathematics, physics and philosophy from an early age. He finished primary and secondary school in 1923 and graduated from the technical high school in Brünn in 1924.

At the age of 18 Kurt Gödel joined his brother Rudolf at the University of Vienna to study theoretical physics. However, he quickly abandoned this idea and turned to mathematics, thanks to the teachings of the German mathematician Philipp Furtwängler, a teacher in Vienna.

He defended his thesis on “Gödel’s Completeness Theorem” and obtained his doctorate at the age of 23. In 1930, while Gödel was working for the University of Vienna, he established the completeness of first-order logic and published in 1931 two essential incompleteness theorems; a publication that earned him an international reputation.

In 1933, Kurt became a lecturer at the University of Vienna after showing symptoms of nervous disorders since the presentation of his theorem. He met Albert Einstein during his first trip to the United States and formed a deep friendship that continued until Einstein’s death.

Thereafter, the scientist, for reasons related to his mental health and faced with the risk of being conscripted directly into the Nazi army as an unemployed man, went into exile in the United States with Adele Nimbursky, his wife and his eldest daughter.

In 1947, he officially became an American citizen and then a full professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies in 1953.

As his mental health continued to deteriorate, Kurt Gödel was consumed by paranoia and died of malnutrition on January 14, 1978 in Princeton.