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I am a strange loop.

loquacious — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:30:41 -0800

Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid has been recorded as a series of video lectures for MIT's Open Courseware project.

Raft to the Future

knave — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 04:32:20 -0800

Raft to the Future: An article about the weirdness of physical models of the universe, how that weirdness correlates to the inherent incompleteness of mathematical systems, and how time itself can emerge at the fringes of these incomplete models.

Nature of Mathematical Truth

Gyan — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:24:24 -0800

Gödel and the Nature of Mathematical Truth : A Talk with Verena Huber-Dyson

You can't prove this title wasn't an attempt to illustrate Godel

Gyan — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 02:59:04 -0800

Godel's theorems have been used to extrapolate a great many "truths" about the world. Torkel Franzen sets the record straight in his new book Godel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse. Read the introduction (PDF). If you want, check out his explanation of the theorems.