Games

On this date —

Alfred Tarski was born
in 1902 in Warsaw, and

Kurt Friedrich Gödel died
in 1978 in Princeton.

From last year’s entry on this date:

What is Truth?

“What is called ‘losing’ in chess
may constitute winning
in another game.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Remarks on the
Foundations of Mathematics
(revised edition, MIT Press, 1978)