Wednesday, January 25, 2012 first time offered at noon
in The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center, CF101
at the Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus of Montgomery College
The book Gödel,
Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R.
Hofstadter a
metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis
Carroll, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A program of music by Bach
The
Royal Theme part of the Musical Offering to King
Fredrick the Great,
followed
by
some Escher
Images
curated by an Art Historian, and Kurt Gödel's theorem "On Formally
Undecidable Propositions" which may be paraphrased as "All consistent
axiomatic formulation of number theory (Whole Numbers) include
undecidable propositions. Gödel's
Incompleteness
Theorems
Wikipedia
link.
Gödel's
Proof by Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman the book
from
Amazon or the MC library.
First guy! eventually Veridical, Falsidcal,
and Antinomov