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[[Image:Goel.jpg|thumb|right|Kurt Godel]]
[[Image:Goel.jpg|thumb|right|Kurt Godel at Institute for Advanced Study]]
'''Kurt Gödel''' (1906-1978) was an Austrian mathematician who did pioneering work in logic and the foundations of mathematics. His Incompleteness Theorem demonstrated some limitations of the program that would have placed all of mathematics on an axiomatic basis.
'''Kurt Gödel''' (1906-1978) was an Austrian mathematician who did pioneering work in logic and the foundations of mathematics. His Incompleteness Theorem demonstrated some limitations of the program that would have placed all of mathematics on an axiomatic basis.