Gödel's Century - Mathematician and Logician Kurt Gödel

Kurt Gödel, who was born in Brno, is generally regarded as the greatest logician since Aristotle. Time Magazine included him among the 100 most important figures of the 20th century, and Harvard University awarded him an honorary doctorate for discovering the “most significant mathematical truth of the century”.

The Austrian Cultural Forum in Prague will present the world-famous logician in an exhibition titled Gödel's Century, which will open with a vernissage on Wednesday, January 13, 2010, at 6 PM. The exhibition will run until February 26, 2010.

According to his own words, Albert Einstein went to Princeton University in his old age just to accompany Gödel on his way home from university. And John von Neumann, one of the spiritual fathers of computers, wrote about him: “Gödel is truly irreplaceable. He is the only mathematician I dare to say that about.”

The exhibition, which was created in 2006 for the 100th anniversary of Gödel's birth, is authored by Prof. Dr. Karl Sigmund from the University of Vienna. The Prague exhibition will be opened by Prof. PhDr. Ing. Miloš Dokulil, DrSc. from the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University in Brno, who deals with the theory and methodology of science and language and is the author of scholarly articles about Kurt Gödel.

The exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Prague will be open from Monday to Friday from 10 AM to 1 PM and from 2 PM to 4 PM.