Can mathematics be proved consistent? : Gödel's shorthand notes & lectures on incompleteness /

Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) shook the mathematical world in 1931 by a result that has become an icon of 20th century science: The search for rigour in proving mathematical theorems had led to the formalization of mathematical proofs, to the extent that such proving could be reduced to the application of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Von Plato, Jan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2020
Series:Sources and studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • I. Gödel's Steps Toward Incompleteness
  • II. The Saved Sources on Incompleteness
  • III. The Shorthand Notebooks
  • IV. The Typewritten Manuscripts
  • V. Lectures and Seminars on Incompleteness
  • Index
  • References