Gödel and news.groups

[Aatu Koskensilta]

I just noticed something truly startling. According to Google the name
Gödel hasn't ever been mentioned in news.groups. Now, surely that's
impossible; there simply cannot be a USENET group where Gödel's
incompleteness theorem isn't invoked in some non-sensical fashion now
and then. Is Google mistaken? If not, are there other newsgroups that
have seen no Gödel reference?

PS. Follow-ups set to news.misc, which was the closest I could find to a
newsgroup where this question would be on-topic. Feel free to answer in
news.groups and set follow-ups to some more appropriate place if you
feel like it.

[j***@yahoo.com]

Post by Aatu Koskensilta
I just noticed something truly startling. According to Google the name
Gödel hasn't ever been mentioned in news.groups. Now, surely that's
impossible; there simply cannot be a USENET group where Gödel's
incompleteness theorem isn't invoked in some non-sensical fashion now
and then. Is Google mistaken? If not, are there other newsgroups that
have seen no Gödel reference?
PS. Follow-ups set to news.misc, which was the closest I could find to a
newsgroup where this question would be on-topic. Feel free to answer in
news.groups and set follow-ups to some more appropriate place if you
feel like it.
--
"Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, daruber muss man schweigen"
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Try searching on Godel (without the umlaut). I just got 89,300
references from numerous groups, especially sci.math and sci.logic.

John

[Aatu Koskensilta]

Post by j***@yahoo.com

Post by Aatu Koskensilta
I just noticed something truly startling. According to Google the name
Gödel hasn't ever been mentioned in news.groups. Now, surely that's
impossible; there simply cannot be a USENET group where Gödel's
incompleteness theorem isn't invoked in some non-sensical fashion now
and then. Is Google mistaken? If not, are there other newsgroups that
have seen no Gödel reference?

Try searching on Godel (without the umlaut). I just got 89,300
references from numerous groups, especially sci.math and sci.logic.

Sure, Gödel - Google doesn't care about the umlaut and happily returns
references to 'Gödel', 'Godel', 'Goedel' and what you have - has been
discussed all over USENET, even in such groups as sci.math and sci.logic
where his work is on-topic. What I found surprising was that apparently
Gödel hasn't made an appearance in news.groups, of all groups, and
wondered whether there are other groups that have led similarly
sheltered lives.