(September 26, 2012 at 12:16 am)Rayaan Wrote: Welcome to the forum.
I see that you have Kurt Godel in your avatar, one of the greatest logician and philosopher that ever lived. I find his ideas really interesting ... stuff like the incompleteness theorem, the limits of human intuition and mathematics, unprovability, self-reference, paradoxes, holes in logic ...
But, strangely, I heard that he eventually starved himself to death because he thought that someone was putting poison in his food.
yes i only recently came to notice about this man although i grew up only about a few hundred miles from where he lived. since about 2 years i am having a very big interest in mathematics and was recently reading through stuff on combinational mathematics - endless but consistant structures - or repeating endless themes - summing up of varriations.
i have recently bought the suposedly great book Gödel, Escher, Bach and will see towards further advancing my knowlege on mathmatics - a subject i once feared. i am still a blind noob on the subject and every further advice on the advance of knowlege will always be met with with appreciation. i came to read about gödle when somewhere somehow coming accross the liars paradox (cratos of creta says all cretans are liars -there for he`s a liar) and it fucked up my brain for quite some time.
the idea of a mathematician who spent his life taking the hardest of all chalenges fascinates me.
he died out of paranoia, he feared his food would be poisoned and his wife had to taste every meal before he ate it. when she was in hospital for half a year - he simply didn`t eat and starved to death.
