Jade on The Halting Problem

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11:17 Here's an interesting talk about Gödel's second incompleteness theorem by a Fields Medalist Vladimir Voevodsky. Right at the start he says he is nervous because the subject (consistency of mathematics) is controversial. He was giving the lecture at the IAS at Princeton: 

My earlier comment doesn't appear, even with "newest" so I'm trying again. Here's Dana Scott talking in 2017 and he says that by the time Turing got to Princeton Gödel had already left and in fact that it was from Max Newman at Cambridge that Turing learned about Gödel and the entscheidungsproblem when Turing was an undergraduate. See this at 17 mins 30 secs :

I used to fondly imagine all these people talking to each other and doing this amazing stuff at the IAS but it turns out that hardly any of them were there at the same time as anyone else, except Alonzo Church and Steven Kleene who were lynch pins.

According to Scott, Gödel had left Princeton before Turing arrived. Apparently he "wasn't feeling well".

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