Kurt Gödel
Legacy

Douglas Hofstadter wrote the 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach to celebrate the work and ideas of Gödel, M. C. Escher and Johann Sebastian Bach. It partly explores the ramifications of the fact that Gödel's incompleteness theorem can be applied to any Turing-complete computational system, which may include the human brain. In 2005 John Dawson published a biography, Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Work of Kurt Gödel. Stephen Budiansky 's book about Gödel's life, Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel, was a New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2021. Gödel was one of four mathematicians examined in David Malone 's 2008 BBC documentary Dangerous Knowledge.

The Kurt Gödel Society, founded in 1987, is an international organization for the promotion of research in logic, philosophy, and the history of mathematics. The University of Vienna hosts the Kurt Gödel Research Center for Mathematical Logic. The Association for Symbolic Logic has held an annual Gödel Lecture since 1990. The Gödel Prize is given annually to an outstanding paper in theoretical computer science. Gödel's philosophical notebooks are preserved at the Kurt Gödel Research Centre at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Five volumes of Gödel's collected works have been published. The first two include his publications; the third includes unpublished manuscripts from his Nachlass, and the final two include correspondence.

In the 1994 film I.Q., Lou Jacobi portrays Gödel. In the 2023 movie Oppenheimer, Gödel, played by James Urbaniak, briefly appears walking with Einstein in the gardens of Princeton.
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