## Mr. Why 0: Dear 1, 1: What? 0: I'd like to introduce you to someone. 1: Um, ok. 0: Someone whose parents used to call him Mr. Why. 1: Solid name. Who is it? 0: The next member of our trinity. ![[godel-collected-works-050.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-011.png]] > -Kurt Godel, collected works ![[godel-goldstein-01.png]] > -Rebecca Goldstein, Incompleteness 0: When Gödel was a little kid, his parents nicknamed him "Mr. Why." Sound familiar? 1: No way! That was totally me! 0: Sounds like it. Though in a lot of ways he wasn't really like anybody. ![[godel-goldstein-02.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-008.png]] 0: He was super cautious. Like another planet level of caution. Eventually ended up starving himself to death out of fear of being poisoned. 1: Holy f--- 0: But that's jumping way ahead. He wasn't always like that. That was toward the end, in the 1970s, when his wife was away in the hospital. 1: Why did he starve himself? 0: He only trusted food that came from Adele. He really needed her around. They were great together. ![[godel-collected-works-006.png]] 1: That's a cute quote. What's this from? 0: From here: ![[godel-collected-works-001.png|400]] 0: Big book of all the stuff Gödel ever wrote. There's commentary by a bunch of logicians before each paper. Everyone's pretty much unanimous that he was the top logician of the century, probably ever. ![[godel-collected-works-007.png]] 0: But we're getting ahead of ourselves again. Let's rewind back to the early days. 1: When's the early days? 0: Well Hilbert's problems were 1900. Then Church was born in 1903. Now Gödel gets born in 1906, so let's start from there. ![[godel-collected-works-012.png]] 1: "he excelled particularly in mathematics, languages, and religion"? 0: Is that a question? 1: Just wondering how you always manage to make everything about religion. 0: You realize I didn't cause Gödel's life to happen right? 1: Just saying it's a suspicious pattern. 0: Sure whatever. Ok so, WWI happens. And, it's hard to overstate this, but basically the end of civilization begins. ![[godel-collected-works-014.png]] --- TODO: Merge bits from several sources to create a narrative from childhood to completeness. --- Hardly ever spoke. ![[godel-collected-works-015.png]] Studied Principia years later. ![[godel-collected-works-016.png]] Did his dissertation with no guidance. ![[godel-collected-works-017.png]] Curt style. ![[godel-collected-works-018.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-019.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-020.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-021.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-022.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-023.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-024.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-025.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-026.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-027.png]] 0: He meets his wife when he's 21, and his parents are not happy. 1: Why not? 0: Well Kurt is soft spoken, to say the least. He basically never talks. His wife, on the other hand, is a, well, a "dancer." 1: What's wrong with being a dancer? 0: I mean like a "night club dancer." 1: Oh! 0: Plus she was already divorced, and was 6 years older than him. 1: Doesn't seem so bad. 0: It wasn't. Apparently they were perfect together. ![[godel-collected-works-028.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-030.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-031.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-032.png]] Loneliness and Sanatorium. ![[godel-collected-works-033.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-034.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-035.png]] Mental stress from 1934-1937. ![[godel-collected-works-036.png]] Was convinced he had a weak heart, but was found fit for duty. ![[godel-collected-works-037.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-038.png]] Finds a security vulnerability in the US constitution and tries to talk about it during his citizenship interview. ![[godel-collected-works-039.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-040.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-041.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-042.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-043.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-044.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-045.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-046.png]] Demonology. ![[godel-collected-works-047.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-048.png]] Starves himself to death. ![[godel-collected-works-049.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-051.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-052.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-053.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-054.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-055.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-056.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-057.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-058.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-059.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-060.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-061.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-062.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-063.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-064.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-065.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-066.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-067.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-068.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-069.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-070.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-071.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-072.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-073.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-074.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-075.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-076.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-077.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-078.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-079.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-080.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-081.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-082.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-083.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-084.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-085.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-086.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-087.png]] ![[godel-collected-works-088.png]] goto: [[lost+found/4/2|/lost+found/4/2]]