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Kurt Gödel

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Does Time Really Flow?

Hilbert felt that the removal of this law was equivalent to handicapping a boxer, but the mathematical framework that called for it intrigued some of the greatest minds of the time, Gödel, and Hermann Weyl.

Classical and Intuitionist Mathematics Shapes Our Understanding of Time in Physics

Brouwer was supported by people like Weyl, and Gödel, but Hilbert's formulation came out on top, leading to the expulsion of time from mathematics, and mathematical objects were thus seen as objects that exist in some platonic realm.

Kurt Gödel