Re: Godel's theorem in the news?
- From: "Jesse F. Hughes" <jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:53:58 -0400
david petry <david_lawrence_petry@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
In Monday's speech at Columbia University, Iran's president Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad was asked why he thinks more research should be done on
the Holocaust. His rambling answer included the following remarks,
which appear to be a reference to Godel's theorems.
The translation is from the Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/24/AR2007092401042_pf.html
"We had principles in mathematics that were granted to be absolute in
mathematics for over 800 years. But new science has gotten rid of
those absolutisms, come forward other different logics of looking at
mathematics and sort of turned the way we look at it as a science
altogether after 800 years. "
How is that about Goedel? Why not about non-Euclidean geometry?
Anyway, you're right. The Iranian president shows that Holocaust
denial is morally equivalent to modern mathematics. What better
argument do we need to show Goedel was wrong?
Another brilliant moral exercise from the guy that advocates executing
humanists --- if necessary.
--
Jesse F. Hughes
"Just goes to tell you. If you make a major discovery, and some stupid
interviewer asks you if you're the greatest mathematician of all time,
just say no." -- practical advice from James S. Harris
.
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