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Gödel's proof /

"Nagel and Newman accomplish the wondrous task of clarifying the argumentative outline of Kurt Godel's celebrated logic bomb."--The GuardianIn 1931 the mathematical logician Kurt Godel published a revolutionary paper that challenged certain basic assumptions underpinning mathematics a...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Nagel, Ernest, 1901-1985
Autres auteurs: Newman, James R. (James Roy), 1907-1966
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London : Routledge, 2005.
Collection:Routledge classics.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Gödel's Proof; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The Problem of Consistency; 3 Absolute Proofs of Consistency; 4 The Systematic Codification of Formal Logic; 5 An Example of a Successful Absolute Proof of Consistency; 6 The Idea of Mapping and its Use in Mathematics; 7 Gödel's Proofs; A Gödel numbering; B The arithmetization of meta-mathematics; C The heart of Gödel's argument; 8 Concluding Reflections; Notes; Brief Bibliography; Index.