Photograph of Kurt Gödel and Albert Einstein in Princeton, New Jersey on December 5th 1947 by Oskar Morgenstern (Photos: Courtesy of the IAS Archive)

The Gödel Essays

Gödel’s Constitutional Quarrel

“The examiner was intelligent enough to quickly quieten Gödel and say ‘Oh god, let’s not go into this’ and broke off the examination at this point, greatly to our relief” — Oskar Morgenstern

Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) was the greatest logician who ever lived. At the age of 24, he revolutionized our understanding of the limits of epistemology — the theory of…