Einstein, Heisenberg & Gödel: Relativity, Uncertainty & Incompleteness

[jporter]

And taught by a Jesuit, no less:

http://www2.bc.edu/%7Eanderso/courses/ehg.html

The energy driving the course comes from the profound
transformations in our understanding of nature and math-
ematics provided by scientific and mathematical develop-
ments in the 20th century. The mathematician, John von
Neumann, writing mid 20th century and capturing a widely
shared perception, noted the enormous significance of the
developments the subject of the course:

	... there have been within the experience of people
	now living at least three serious crises... There have
	been two such crises in physics---namely, the concep-
	tual soul-searching connected with the discovery of
	relativity and the conceptual difficulties connected
	with discoveries in quantum theory... The third crisis
	was in mathematics. It was a very serious conceptual
	 crisis, dealing with rigor and the proper way to carry
	out a correct mathematical proof. In view of the earlier
	notions of the absolute rigor of mathematics, it is sur-
	prising that such a thing could have happened, and
	even more surprising that it could have happened in
	these latter days when miracles are not supposed to
	take place. Yet it did happen.


I'm 'almost' certain the course of this road runs through Göttingen.

jody