Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/03/04/wooden-fractal-curve-puzzles.html
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I wonder why this guy hates David Hilbert so much
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Because Hilbert grabbed Infinity by the horns and wrestled it to the ground.
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It was weird watching the Kickstarter video, hearing the background music, and not seeing brass being machined while a pleasant Australian narrates. I’ve been conditioned by Clickspring.
OK, wait a minute. That third puzzle there. There’s a problem.
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Gödel would have to say one thing about this.
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Here’s another nice fractal jigsaw puzzle by Oskar van Deventer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SbOYXQ2x6I
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Yes.
Hilbert was a hero, to be sure.
But Gödel … Gödel walked, talked, and reckoned with the Angels. (And paid the price for his genius – a genuine tragedy.)
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My knowledge is very much limited to brief stints on wikipedia but I thought Giuseppe Peano discovered the first curve.
David Hilbert hasn’t been overlooked though, the Hilbert curve got it’s very own puzzle in the batch I released last year. 
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I’m having trouble understanding how everyone else does, uh, not see what you and I are seeing…
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I didn’t actually think you hated Hilbert, I was just being whimsical. But the Hilbert curve is better known, I guess because it is simpler to code, and/or because CS types are familiar with Hilbert from his role in the creation myth of computing.
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I’m sure it is a coincidence. Nothing to get in a furor about… 
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I wonder why this guy hates me.
Hilbert’s stuff, to me, is already too complicated to grasp.
“To infinity… and beyond” would be a duly fitting motto for Cantor, as I was told. But for Gödel, infinity is not enough. I’m not religious, and your metaphor is a bit lost on me, but it definitely sounds about right.
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I absolutely did not see that. I had to go back to see what you were talking about.
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