Associations to the word «Gödel»

Wiktionary

GÖDEL NUMBER, noun. (logic) A number uniquely assigned to each symbol, and to each well-formed formula of some formal language.

Dictionary definition

GODEL, noun. United States mathematician (born in Austria) who is remembered principally for demonstrating the limitations of axiomatic systems (1906-1978).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne