Albion College Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium



Title: My favorite theorem in fiction: the first incompleteness theorem.
Speaker:Andrew-David Bjork
Associate Professor
Mathematics
Siena Heights University
Adrian, Michigan
Abstract: Many authors have incorporated mathematics into their writings. Few have done so as intentionally as Neal Stephenson. His novel Cryptonomicon, published in 1999, holds one of my favorite narrations of Gödel's celebrated result. This talk will follow and explain Stephenson's treatment of the first incompleteness theorem. I will also invite a conversation on the liberal arts today, and why we care so deeply about more than mathematics.
Location: Palenske 227
Date:11/21/2019
Time: 3:30 pm



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title   = "{My favorite theorem in fiction: the first incompleteness theorem.}",
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