User:Jeffreykegler

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I've been a computer programmer since 1971, lately in C, C++ and Perl. I came from the theoretical side of things: I'm a published mathematician, have a BS and an MSCS from Yale, and was a Lecturer in the Yale Medical School.

In 2007 I published my first novel, The God Proof. It centers on a little known part of Kurt Gödel's work -- his effort to prove God's existence. (Yes, that's for real. See Gödel's Collected Works, Vol 3. pp. 403-404.) Gödel worked out his proof in two notebooks, notebooks which were missing from his effects when they were cataloged after this death. In fact, these notebooks were the only things unaccounted for. The God Proof begins with Gödel's lost notebooks reappearing in a coastal town in modern California.

The God Proof is available as a free download [1]. Print copies can be purchased at Amazon.com [2].

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My editing will focus on adding sources. Sourcing your own work is almost as hard as writing it. Sourcing other people's is probably harder. In particular, it's very hard to distinguish between statements without a source and those where there is a source but you're not familiar with it.

In theory, I suppose for each statement, you read everything in the Library of Congress. If you don't find it, it is unsourced. In practice, you do a limited amount of research on each statement, then flag it as unsourced. If no source appears, then the statement has to be eliminated, or replaced with something that can be sourced.

I'll start with Kurt Gödel's biographical information. In doing the research for the novel, I studied all the major sources carefully, so I am freshly familiar with the material.