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 Gödel proved two
incompleteness theorems that have fundamentally changed our view of
mathematics. Gödel'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
Gödel'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theorems, and the now largely outdated notation turn Gödel's
historical masterpiece into a difficult read. This book explores
Gödel'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 Gödel'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 Gödel'schen
Unvollständigkeitssätze".
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A Guided Tour Through Kurt Gödel’s Historic Proof
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ISBN
9783662695500
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Springer Nature
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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