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IntroductionKurt Friedrich Gödel was born in Austria and later became American. He is a mathematician, logician and philosopher. He founded the modern mathematical era in mathematical logic. He is one of the most significant logicians in history. Kurt had an immense impact on philosophical and scientific thinking throughout the 20th century, a time when other guys like Russell, David Hilbert, and AN Whitehead were pioneers in using logic to understand the foundations of mathematics. His incompleteness theorems had the most significant impact on mathematical logic. He published his two incompleteness theorems at the age of 25, in 1931, a year after receiving his doctorate from the University of Vienna. Early lifeKurt Gödel was born in 1906, in Brunn, Austria-Hungary, to an ethnic German family. His father's name is Rudolf Gödel whose family was from Vienna. His father is the director of the textile industry and Marianne Handschuh was his wife. His parents speak German and this language is his native language. During his parents' marriage, his father was Catholic and his mother was Protestant. So, their parents' marriage was mixed in confession. Kurt was very devoted to his mother and was used to depending on her and seemed quite upset and shy when his mother was not at his house. Rudolf and Handschuh have two sons, the eldest is Rudolf who is named after his father, and the youngest is Kurt. He had rheumatic fever when he was seven. However, he read medical books about the disease he suffered from. Kurt's father died in 1929 and Kurt's mother bought an apartment in Vienna, Kurt and his brother live there with her. Kurt bec...... middle of paper ......ter then, his wife was hospitalized, so she neglected to eat food and began to starve. This undermined his health and ultimately led to his death on January 14, 1978. After Kurt's death, the society under his name "Kurt Gödel Society" was founded in 1987, a worldwide association for the promotion of research in the fields such as logic, mathematics and philosophy. Summary Kurt Gödel was an independent logical thinker and a strong personality in the fields of philosophy and mathematics. In this article we have discussed many of his thesis works, popular theorems, his results and finally his contribution to work towards logic and mathematics. Bibliography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del http://www.thefamouspeople .com/profiles/kurt-gdel-500.phphttp://www-gap.dcs.st-and. ac.uk/history/Biographies/Godel.htmlhttp://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel/