Couldn't resist yet another xkcd question. Solve for X,Y and especially Z.Answer: X - Bertrand Russell, Y - Alfred North Whitehead, Z - Kurt Godel. The pun is this: Russell and Whitehead set out to derive mathematics rigorously from axioms and spent more than 10 years in such an attempt producing the famous Principia Mathematica. Godel came along and proved that any such system of mathematics is necessarily incomplete. Rahul Trivedi, Raghu, Mekie, Adi, Rajesh, 3001, Swapnaa and Rajeev got it. Well done.
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Russel, Whitehead & Godel :)
Russel and Whitehead with Principia Mathematica and the weird one is Godel.
Russel, Whitehead, Godel
Master's Johnson, Kinsey and Marquis De Sade
x = rusell
y = whitehead
z = godel
A spoof of Godel destroying more than a decade of work by Rusell and Whitehead to rederieve all of mathematics consistently.
X - Bertrand Russell, Y - Alfred Whitehead, Z - Kurt Godel.
x, y => russell, whitehead
z => godel
dinky, staying off xkcd comics in future would largely benefit normal people. Some regulars to your blog have been permanently scarred trying to figure out what on earth this meant, and in the process, had to endure extremely tortuous guesses and comments by the man that transcends planes once the clock strikes 12.
- 3001, Willowtree Towers
X: Russell
Y: Whitehead
Z: Godel
I stumbled upon that strip and wrote down the answers (in short, I cheated!). Since that means I don't get the joke at all, can you include a nice and lengthy explanation in your answer? I need to be enlightened. :)
russell whitehead godel
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