Re: Godel's Incompleteness theorem



On Jun 27, 6:28 pm, moorthy <cmkmoor...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Can somebody provide me some good explanation on Godel's
incompleteness theorem in a simple way.

Yeah. Read James R Meyer's book The Shackles of Conviction. It is a
novel about Godel and his Incompleteness Theorem, but gives the best
expalanation of Godel's theorem I have come across. And it's a damn
good novel too. Meyer has website www.jamesrmeyer.com.
.



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