minus-squareMatt@lemm.eetoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is a beautiful concept or idea that continues to blow your mind?linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoIt would have to be Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem. Such a beautiful proof that shakes mathematics to its core. The science communicator Veritasium made a nice video about it: https://youtu.be/HeQX2HjkcNo I first learned about it in Douglas Hofstaedter’s masterpiece Gödel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid linkfedilink
It would have to be Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem. Such a beautiful proof that shakes mathematics to its core.
The science communicator Veritasium made a nice video about it: https://youtu.be/HeQX2HjkcNo
I first learned about it in Douglas Hofstaedter’s masterpiece Gödel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid