Go?del's Incompleteness Theorems
A Guided Tour Through Kurt Go?del?s Historic Proof
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Product details:
- Edition number 2024
- Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Date of Publication 31 August 2024
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9783662695494
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages385 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations XIX, 385 p. 65 illus., 46 illus. in color. Illustrations, black & white 702
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In 1931, the mysterious-sounding article ""On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems I"" shook the mathematical world. In this article, Kurt Go?del proved two incompleteness theorems that have fundamentally changed our view of mathematics. Go?del's theorems manifest that the concept of truth and the concept of provability cannot coincide.
Since their discovery, the incompleteness theorems have attracted much attention, and a flood of articles and books have been devoted to their striking consequences. For good reasons, however, hardly any work deals with Go?del's article in its original form: His complex lines of thought described with meticulous precision, the many definitions and theorems, and the now largely outdated notation turn Go?del's historical masterpiece into a difficult read.
This book explores Go?del's original proof in detail. All individual steps are carefully explained and illustrated with numerous examples. However, this book is more than just an annotated version of the historical article, as the proper understanding of Go?del's work requires a solid grasp of history. Thus, numerous excursions take the reader back to the beginning of the twentieth century. It was the time when mathematics experienced one of its greatest crises, when type theory and axiomatic set theory were taking shape, and Hilbert's formalistic logic and Brouwer's intuitionistic mathematics were openly confronting each other.
This book is the revised translation of the second edition of the author's German language book ""Die Go?del'schen Unvollsta?ndigkeitssa?tze"".
Table of Contents:
Introduction.- Foundations of Mathematics.- Proof Sketch.- System P.- Primitive-Recursive Functions.- The Limits of Mathematics.- Epilogue.
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