Harald Hanche-Olsen, in the comments on my earlier post about the Principia Mathematica, has pointed out that this months issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society is a special issue in honor of the 100th anniversary of Kurt Gödels birth. The entire issue is available for free online
I haven't read much of the journal yet; but Martin Davis's article The Incompleteness Theorem is a really great overview of the theorem abnd the proof, how it works, and what it means.
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