Kurt Godel's Pen

[musingsonmath]

What pen would you guess is in Kurt Godel's pocket?

 

http://payingattentiontothesky.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/einstein-and-godel.jpg

 

Any thoughts?

[jar]

Sheaffer Balance.

[tmcneil82]

Sheaffer Balance.

What it looks like to me too.

[bernardo]

Wow, it's nice to learn that one of the great minds of the 20th century used a Sheaffer!

[musingsonmath]

Thanks for the quick response!

[Uncle Red]

Two of the finest minds in history and we look at the pen. Naturally.

 

Where was Godel born and where and when was this picture taken?

[The Ant]

Too bad he could only afford the non-lifetime.

[musingsonmath]

Two of the finest minds in history and we look at the pen. Naturally.

 

Where was Godel born and where and when was this picture taken?

 

Kurt Godel was born in 1906 (in Austria-Hungary, now the Czech Republic). You can read his biography here:

 

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Godel.html

 

As for the date of the picture, there is a copy of it in Walter Isaacson's Einstein biography that dates it at 1950 - about 5 years before Einstein's death. Godel lived until 1978, eventually dying of starvation due in part to his fear that he was being poisoned.

[Lloyd]

Too bad he could only afford the non-lifetime.

 

 

Missing the white dot just means it was ....incomplete.

[Ernst Bitterman]

The consistency of white dot placement cannot be proven; it might have a lifetime point... but without taking the cap off, we may also wonder if he didn't borrow the pen from Schroedinger.

[Uncle Red]

LOL! good one.

[tenney]

And what is the pen in Einstein's pocket?

[Shaughn]

Too bad he could only afford the non-lifetime.

 

 

Missing the white dot just means it was ....incomplete.

 

:roflmho:

[Shaughn]

And what is the pen in Einstein's pocket?

 

http://musingsonmath.com/2011/03/14/has-anyone-seen-einsteins-pen/ says we say: Waterman Taper-cap.

[bernardo]

And what is the pen in Einstein's pocket?

http://musingsonmath...-einsteins-pen/ says we say: Waterman Taper-cap.

 

I don't think that's the famous Waterman, since, as long as I know, Einstein gave it to Paul Ehrenfest long before this picture was taken.

[Shaughn]

You have a point there. It's not that one. But he might have bought another.