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Interpreting Goedel

Interpreting Goedel

Critical Essays

by Juliette Kennedy
Hardback
Publication Date: 21/08/2014

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The logician Kurt Goedel (1906-1978) published a paper in 1931 formulating what have come to be known as his 'incompleteness theorems', which prove, among other things, that within any formal system with resources sufficient to code arithmetic, questions exist which are neither provable nor disprovable on the basis of the axioms which define the system. These are among the most celebrated results in logic today. In this volume, leading philosophers and mathematicians assess important aspects of Goedel's work on the foundations and philosophy of mathematics. Their essays explore almost every aspect of Godel's intellectual legacy including his concepts of intuition and analyticity, the Completeness Theorem, the set-theoretic multiverse, and the state of mathematical logic today. This groundbreaking volume will be invaluable to students, historians, logicians and philosophers of mathematics who wish to understand the current thinking on these issues.
ISBN:
9781107002661
9781107002661
Category:
Mathematical logic
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
21-08-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
288
Dimensions (mm):
235x158x21mm
Weight:
0.56kg

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