Three tsunamis shook science in the twentieth century: First, Albert
Einstein's famous equation E=mc2, the formula for the atomic bomb (and
the reason the sun shines). Second, the discovery, by Francis
Crick, James Watson, and Rosalind Franklin, that all life descends down
a dual spiral staircase - the dance of the double helix. Third,
the discovery, by a young Austrian mathematician, that we can never be
certain 1 is not equal to 0 - a statement that is deceptively disarming
in its seeming unimportance. The name of this mathematician was
Kurt Gödel. And April 28, 2006, marks the centenary of his birth.
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