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Kurt Gödel
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
First Name, Surname Kurt, Gödel Kurt, Gödel
Email demo2@eurocv.eu
       
       
       
Place and date of birth Czech Republic Brno 28-04-1906
Gender Male
WORK EXPERIENCE
Date (from - to) 12/1953 - 14/01/1978
Name and address of employer University of Princeton
Type of business or sector Teaching
Occupation or position held Ordinary member
Main activities and responsibilities I held a chair at Princeton from 1953 until my death, holding a contract which explicitly stated that I had no lecturing duties.
Date (from - to) 01/1940 - 12/1953
Name and address of employer Institute for Advanced Study
Type of business or sector Teaching
Occupation or position held Ordinary member
Main activities and responsibilities I was an ordinary member of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1940 to 1946 (holding year long appointments which were renewed every year), then I was a permanent member until 1953.
Date (from - to) 01/1938 - 12/1938
Name and address of employer University of Göttingen
Type of business or sector Teaching
Occupation or position held Lecturer
Main activities and responsibilities I visited Göttingen in the summer of 1938, lecturing there on my set theory research.
Date (from - to) 01/1934 - 12/1934
Name and address of employer University of Princeton
Type of business or sector Teaching
Occupation or position held Lecturer
Main activities and responsibilities I gave a series of lectures at Princeton entitled On undecidable propositions of formal mathematical systems.
Date (from - to) 01/12/1932 - 31/12/1933
Name and address of employer University of Vienna
Type of business or sector Teaching
Occupation or position held Privatdozent
Main activities and responsibilities Submitting my paper on incompleteness to the University of Vienna for my habilitation, this was accepted by Hahn on 1 December 1932. I became a Privatdozent at the University of Vienna in March 1933.
Date (from - to) 01/1930 - 01/01/1932
Name and address of employer University of Vienna
Type of business or sector Mathematichs
Occupation or position held Member of the faculty
Main activities and responsibilities I belonged to the school of logical positivism until 1938
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Date (from - to) 01/1923 - 12/1929
Name and type of organisation providing education or training University of Vienna
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered I completed my doctoral dissertation under Hahn's supervision in 1929 submitting a thesis proving the completeness of the first order functional calculus.
Title of certification awarded Doctor in Mathematichs
OTHER LANGUAGES
Native Language German
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SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
Acquired in the course of life and career but not necessarily covered by formal certificates and diplomas.
 I gained some awards in recognition of my work. I received the National Medal of Science in 1974. I received the Einstein Award in 1951. I was a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, a fellow of the Royal Society, a member of the Institute of France, a fellow of the Royal Academy and an Honorary Member of the London Mathematical Society.
SOCIAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
Living and working with other people, in multicultural environments, in positions where communication is important and situations where teamwork is essential (for example culture and sports), etc
 After settling in the United States, I produced work of the greatest importance. My masterpiece Consistency of the axiom of choice and of the generalized continuum-hypothesis with the axioms of set theory (1940) is a classic of modern mathematics. In this I proved that if an axiomatic system of set theory of the type proposed by Russell and Whitehead in Principia Mathematica is consistent, then it will remain so when the axiom of choice and the generalized continuum-hypothesis are added to the system. This did not prove that these axioms were independent of the other axioms of set theory, but when this was finally established by Cohen in 1963 he built on these my ideas.
ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
Coordination and administration of people, projects and budgets; at work, in voluntary work (for example culture and sports), at home, etc
 In 1940 I arrived in the United States, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1948. One of my closest friends at Princeton was Einstein. We each had a high regard for the other and we spoke frequently. It is unclear how much Einstein influenced me to work on relativity, but he did indeed contribute to that subject.
TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
With computers, specific kinds of equipment, machinery, etc
 After settling in the United States, I produced work of the greatest importance. My masterpiece Consistency of the axiom of choice and of the generalized continuum-hypothesis with the axioms of set theory (1940) is a classic of modern mathematics. In this I proved that if an axiomatic system of set theory of the type proposed by Russell and Whitehead in Principia Mathematica is consistent, then it will remain so when the axiom of choice and the generalized continuum-hypothesis are added to the system. This did not prove that these axioms were independent of the other axioms of set theory, but when this was finally established by Cohen in 1963 he built on these my ideas.