Re: My talk about Godel to the post-grads.

"Nam D. Nguyen" <namducnguyen@xxxxxxx> writes:

Peter_Smith wrote:

I'm minded to keep this wonderful piece to give to undergraduates as
an exercise to count the number of misunderstandings.

I wonder if misunderstandings of the nature of Godel's work would be
*only* with the undergraduates? Would, say, scholars and professors
be *totally* immune from the misunderstandings?


Presumably, Peter regularly teaches Goedel's theorem to a class of
undergrads, silly person. He does not scour the streets, searching
for those who misunderstand Goedel's theorem so that he can give them
a handout.
--
Jesse F. Hughes

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