Special One Time Event: Karl Sigmund
- Date: 04/12/2012
- Time: 15:15
Lecturer(s):
Karl Sigmund
Location:
University of British Columbia
Topic:
Goedel in Vienna
Description:
Abstract:
A richly illustrated talk about Goedel's time in Vienna. These
fifteen years cover his brilliant start at the University and his
discovery of the incompleteness theorems, the confused period between
Hitler's rise to power in Germany and the annexation of Austria, and
Goedel's desperate struggle to leave national-socialist Vienna.
Other Information:
Location: WMAX 110
Sponsor:
