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Re:The Octonion Math That Could Underpin Physics by gjm11 on Friday July 20, 2018 @02:53PM (#17577803)
Gödel's background was Lutheran, not Catholic, and I don't think he was particularly orthodox. (I have no idea how his religious convictions influenced his metamathematical ones; you might well be right about that.)
Re:The Octonion Math That Could Underpin Physics by arketyp on Friday July 20, 2018 @04:43PM (#17578743)
Thanks for the correction. I'm sure I've heard biographers (Jessica Goldestein perhaps?) describe his faith as having had a strong influence, but I must have misconstrued it quite a bit as memory faded. You're right, he was raised Lutheran. But his father was Catholic.