Sunday Morning

Sunday, 8:30 AM, and my Nokia goes *BEEP* *BEEP*...*BEEP* *BEEP*.
A small vibration, and Voila! a new message!

"hi jimmy how r

thngs? got your num

from your bro wen

i ws in del. M

in Dubai dese days,

really miss u and

our Wonder Years

:) - Love Binu"

'twas a message and a contact from Binu after a gap of 7 years. Won't talk about who or what Binu is but he was there throughout my "Wonder Years". My first crush at school - Nija *sigh*, those fights with our seniors for snatching our TT table during lunch, or those silly jokes, like "Monal Salhotra".
I replied to his message with a smile and with a feeling of being someone special. :)
A few 10 minutes later, Shuksi calls up!! I knew it was Saturday night in his part of the world and well, 3AM. :D
Here's what the highligh of our talk was-"Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem". Its basically about a theorem demonstrated by the Czech-born mathematician Kurt Gödel in 1931.

Shamelessly pasting some of the contents from that website:-

..Kurt Gödel demonstrated that within any given branch of mathematics, there would always be some propositions that couldn't be proven either true or false using the rules and axioms ... of that mathematical branch itself.

Gödel's Theorem has been used to argue that a computer can never be as smart as a human being because the extent of its knowledge is limited by a fixed set of axioms, whereas people can discover unexpected truths ... It plays a part in modern linguistic theories, which emphasize the power of language to come up with new ways to express ideas. And it has been taken to imply that you'll never entirely understand yourself, since your mind, like any other closed system, can only be sure of what it knows about itself by relying on what it knows about itself.

What this says is that, in mathematics, there's always a true and a false. But beyond that there is this thing called incompleteness, which in a layman's term says that there are things that go beyond the usual "true or false".. and that there's are things that are neither true or false!
Go there, its a nice read and even if you're not a mathematician, you'd still find it interesting..."http://www.miskatonic.org/godel.html"

Thanks for calling Shux!
Love ya and come back soon. Captain Saab and me eagerly await your return. ;o) hope you had a Gute Nacht!
Some Sunday Morning it was! :o)