Kurt Gödel

== Legacy ==
[[Douglas Hofstadter]] wrote the 1979 book {{lang|de|[[Gödel, Escher, Bach]]|italic=yes}} 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]].

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]] each year since 1990. [http://www.bbaw.de/en/research/goedel Gödel's Philosophical Notebooks] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514173658/http://www.bbaw.de/en/research/goedel |date=May 14, 2019 }} are edited at the [http://www.bbaw.de/en/research/goedel Kurt Gödel Research Centre] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514173658/http://www.bbaw.de/en/research/goedel |date=May 14, 2019 }} which is situated at the [http://www.bbaw.de/en/academy Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities] in Germany.

Five volumes of Gödel's collected works have been published. The first two include his publications; the third includes unpublished manuscripts from his {{lang|de|[[Nachlass]]}}, and the final two include correspondence.

In 2005 [[John W. Dawson, Jr|John Dawson]] published a biography of Gödel, ''Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Work of Kurt Gödel'' ([[A. K. Peters]], Wellesley, MA, {{isbn|1-56881-256-6}}). [[Stephen Budiansky]]'s book about Gödel's life, ''Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel'' ([[W. W. Norton & Company]], New York City, NY, {{isbn|978-0-393-35820-9}}), was a [[The New York Times|''New York Times'']] Critics' Top Book of 2021.<ref>{{cite web
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Gödel was also one of four mathematicians examined in [[David Malone (independent filmmaker)|David Malone]]'s 2008 [[BBC]] documentary ''Dangerous Knowledge''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/dangerous-knowledge.shtml|title=Dangerous Knowledge|work=BBC  |date=June 11, 2008|access-date=October 6, 2009}}</ref>

The [[Gödel Prize]] is given annually for an outstanding paper in theoretical computer science.

In the 2023 movie [[Oppenheimer (film)|Oppenheimer]], Gödel, played by [[James Urbaniak]], briefly appears walking with Einstein in the gardens of Princeton.