In his commentary “AI, Godel and God,” John Nassivera tries to apply Kurt Godel’s “Incompleteness Theorem,” which was published in 1931, to verify the existence of God. According to Mr. Nassivera, the ...

Earlier today I set you the puzzle below, which is based on Gödel’s incompleteness theorem. As I discussed in the original post, this theorem is one of the most famous in maths and states that in any ...

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - APRIL 19: A detailed view of the blackboard with theoretical physics equations in chalk by Alberto Ramos, Theoretical Physics Fellow and visitor, Antonio Gonzalez-Arroyo from the ...

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about AI (artificial intelligence). It seems it’s becoming able to do astonishing things, even touted as things beyond human capabilities. Well, everything you see on ...

Mark Colyvan receives funding from The Australian Research Council and from the Humboldt Foundation. The recent events surrounding Donald Trump’s first few weeks in the White House have left many ...

BERLIN, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Scientists from Germany and Austria say they have proved a 20th century theorem that mathematics can be used to prove the existence of a higher being. Christoph Benzmueller of ...

"All Cretans are liars", said Epimenides, a Cretan. But this means that his statement must be a lie too. But then it is false that Cretans are liars and the statement must be true. So what now?

I’d like to add another interesting synthesis of logic and faith to Mike Kerrigan’s “God and Math at Dinner” (op-ed, Jan. 5). Gödel’s incompleteness theorems prove that certain mathematical methods ...

In 1931, the Austrian logician Kurt Gödel published his incompleteness theorem, a result widely considered one of the greatest intellectual achievements of modern times. The theorem states that in any ...