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Murphy’s Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel’s Theorem. — Thomas Pynchon, “Gravity’s Rainbow” Gödel’s incompleteness theorems are two theorems of mathematical logic that establish inherent limitations of all but the most trivial axiomatic systems capable of doing arithmetic. The theorems, proven by Kurt Gödel in 1931, are important both in mathematical logic and in […]