Von Neumann Explains His Game Theory to Gödel, September 1940
Jan von Plato · The Mathematical Intelligencer · 2020
oted logician Kurt Go ¨del was a regular visitor to Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study in the 1930s.He returned to Vienna from a visit in June 1939, against the advice of many, mainly to fetch his wife, Adele.At that time, his home country, Austria, had ceased to exist, and he was formally a German citizen, which meant that for the couple's journey to Princeton, this time for good, they would be unable to take a transatlantic steamer, because the British regularly screened out German citizens.He was, however, allowed to travel on the Trans-Siberian Railway, for the Soviet Union and Germany were allies, and