A story about a young depressed mathematician, who faces trouble coming to terms with the uncertainty of mathematics.
Stories for 'Incompleteness'
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A letter from an PhD supervisor to his recently graduated doctoral student, where he discusses his unpublished work on Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. -
Genesis from the Bible and the Nasadiya Sukta from the Rig Veda are cleverly rewritten to describe a mathematical God and the origin of mathematics. -
An exquisitely crafted epic poem that marries mathematical concepts with literary and mythological references to explain the emergence of incompleteness in modern mathematics.