Juliette Kennedy

Kennedy is a University Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Helsinki. In 2013, she was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She has published extensively on the work of Kurt Gödel, including Gödel's Thesis: An Appreciation (2011), as well as the philosophical and aesthetic applications of mathematics, such as Logic Unfettered: European and American Abstraction Now (2007). Articles include "Can the Continuum Hypothesis be Solved?," for the Institute for Advanced Study (2011).

Her research interests include set theory, the foundations and philosophy of mathematics, and aesthetics and art history. In 2013, she co-organized Simplicity: Ideals of Practice in Mathematics & The Arts, a conversation and lecture series at CUNY Graduate Center engaging twenty-six mathematicians, artists, art historians, philosophers and architects on the topic of simplicity in mathematics and the visual and architectural arts.