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Gödelian Mysteries
Gödelian Mysteries
A friend of mine, Jeremy Silver, at Princeton had the opportunity to glance at the papers. He writes:
So I checked out some of the manuscripts in the library today. I dont think even a fluent German
reader could make much sense of them at all. Even his math was not in conventional notation, so I
could barely understand any of that. Sadly, I wasnt allowed to photocopy anything (it requires express
permission from the Institute of Advanced Study), but I jotted down some brief impressions of what I
saw, and I also tried to transcribe some of his shorthand so you can behold how hieroglyphic they are.
I only looked at Box 10a which had lots of references and citations to Leibnizs works (Gdel was
quite a bibliographer!), but almost all of it was illegible to me. There was a good bit of Latin, though
probably quoting Leibniz and I tried to copy down what I could read out of like one sentence.