On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems

by Kurt Gödel

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In 1931, a young Austrian mathematician published an epoch-making paper containing one of the most revolutionary ideas in logic since Aristotle. Kurt Giidel maintained, and offered detailed proof, that in any arithmetic system, even in elementary parts of arithmetic, there are propositions which cannot be proved or disproved within the system. It is thus uncertain that the basic axioms of arithmetic will not give rise to contradictions. The repercussions...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0486669807

ISBN13:9780486669809

Release Date:April 1992

Publisher:Dover Publications

Length:80 Pages

Weight:0.31 lbs.

Dimensions:0.3" x 4.9" x 7.8"

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Math Mathematics Science & Math

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