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Einstein's 70th Birthday Party at the IAS (1949)

Mar 01, 2022

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From left to right: Robertson, Wigner, Weyl, Gödel, Rabi, Einstein, Ladenburg, Oppenheimer, and Clemence. (Photo: IAS Archive)

Following Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)’s publications of the first- and second incompleteness theorems (1931) and later work on Cantor’s continuum hypothesis (1947), Gödel in 1948 turned his attention to cosmology. In an extensive investigation of Einstein’s field equations, Gödel found one of few known exact solutions, whose implications—the “Gödel universe”—are very peculiar. Gödel presented his solution to Einstein in the form of a manuscript on the occasion of the latter’s 70th birthday in 1949. Read the this story here:

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Gödel's Solution to Einstein's Field Equations (1949)

Following Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)’s publications on the first- and second incompleteness theorems (1931) and later work on Cantor’s continuum hypothesis (1947), Gödel in 1948 turned his attention to cosmology. In an extensive investigation of Einstein’s field equations, Gödel found one of few known exact solutions, whose implications—the “Gödel universe”—are very peculiar…

4 years ago · 8 likes · Jørgen Veisdal

The photograph above shows both Gödel and Einstein, alongside their colleagues Eugene Wigner (1902-95), Hermann Weyl (1885-1955) and J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67) during the birthday celebration at the Institute for Advanced Study, among others.

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