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Wow, this actually looks really great. I just got through reading Edward Frenkel's book "Love and Math", which was excellent up until he started to make claims
by mathgenius 12y ago
Wow, this actually looks really great.
I just got through reading Edward Frenkel's book "Love and Math", which was excellent up until he started to make claims about how mathematics would save the world, triumph of objectivism, etc. etc. And just prior to this he wafts over Godel without even mentioning incompleteness.
So I'm heartened to read Dyson talking about incompleteness as a failure of "reductionism". And then throwing Einstein into the same dumpster. (But we all love uncle Albert anyway.)