{"643769":{"#nid":"643769","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Alum Ben Elkins (BSAM 1988 and MSAM 1992) Notices Erroneous G\u00f6del Gravestone","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA few years ago, bringing his son Adam to school in Princeton, NJ, Alum Ben Elkins\u0026nbsp;(BSAM 1988 and MSAM 1992) decided to visit Princeton Cemetary to visit the graves of famous mathematicians. He recently wrote to us with an update, which we would like to share.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom Ben\u0026#39;s recent correspondance:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI was honored and then shocked at the lack of upkeep and poison ivy that had overtaken [G\u0026ouml;del\u0026#39;s]\u0026nbsp;gravestone back then. Additionally, the double-quote over the O (a Hungarian diacritic I believe) also I found deeply troubling.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nUpon my return home I reached out to the Princeton Cemetary office and started discussions on cleaning and correcting the engraving.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThese discussions have continued over the past years and as you can imagine, as there were no children, the math dept here at Princeton are the assumed trustees of the burial plot. One can just imagine the towers of bureaucratic paper work it took to correct these issues.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWell, to make a long story short, I touched base with the cemetery office before driving over and they assured me all was in order and had been corrected.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPlease see a pic from a few minutes ago! I am so pleased to be able to leave a rock, pay my respects to this great man of mathematics and see his cleaned gravestone and corrected Germanic umlaut as he was known to write his name.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nI\u0026rsquo;m assuming the error arose upon his burial preparations as he was born in Br\u0026uuml;nn, Austria-Hungary (currently Brno, Czech Republic).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nI know Kurt G\u0026ouml;del is an important historical mathematical \/ philosophical figure to you as well and I wanted to share these pics with you for your enjoyment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBen Elkins was also gracious enough to share his translation of\u0026nbsp;Felix Hausdorff\u0026#39;s Poem \u0026quot;Den Ungefl\u0026uuml;gelten\u0026quot; last year, which appears in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/proofreader2020.pdf\u0022\u003Erecent edition of the ProofReader.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Thank you very much\u0026nbsp;for your contributions, Ben!\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Alum Ben Elkins spent a few years and several conversations with the Princeton Cemetary office in an effort to correct a typo on G\u00f6del\u0027s gravestone. "}],"uid":"34518","created_gmt":"2021-02-02 16:22:41","changed_gmt":"2022-05-25 15:38:57","author":"sbarone7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-02-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-02-02T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"643768":{"id":"643768","type":"image","title":"elkins_fixed","body":null,"created":"1612282897","gmt_created":"2021-02-02 16:21:37","changed":"1612282897","gmt_changed":"2021-02-02 16:21:37","alt":"","file":{"fid":"244407","name":"elkins_fixed.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/elkins_fixed.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/elkins_fixed.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1009826,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/elkins_fixed.jpg?itok=eIQ6Y2dS"}},"643767":{"id":"643767","type":"image","title":"elkins_typo","body":null,"created":"1612282859","gmt_created":"2021-02-02 16:20:59","changed":"1612282859","gmt_changed":"2021-02-02 16:20:59","alt":"","file":{"fid":"244406","name":"elkins_typo.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/elkins_typo.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/elkins_typo.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1242391,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/elkins_typo.jpg?itok=CNDsB3Wr"}}},"media_ids":["643768","643767"],"groups":[{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"173647","name":"_for_math_site_"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["comm@math.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}