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| | | | | Philosophy of Mathematics, Exam Paper 122, Oxford University Wednesdays 12-1 during term, Radcliffe Humanities Lecture Room Joel David Hamkins, Professor of Logic Lucy, Charles - Personifications o... | |
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carcinisation.com
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| | | | | Gödel's theorems say something important about the limits of mathematical proof. Proofs in mathematics are (among other things) arguments. A typical mathematical argument may not be "inside" the universe it's saying something about. The Pythagorean theorem is a statement about the geometry of triangles, but it's hard to make a proof of it using nothing... | |
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xorshammer.com
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| | | | | Let $latex \mathrm{PA}$ be Peano Arithmetic. Gödel's Second Incompleteness Theorem says that no consistent theory $latex T$ extending $latex \mathrm{PA}$ can prove its own consistency. (I'll write $latex \mathrm{Con}(T)$ for the statement asserting $latex T$'s consistency; more on this later.) In particular, $latex \mathrm{PA} + \mathrm{Con}(\mathrm{PA})$ is stronger than $latex \mathrm{PA}$. But certainly, given that... | |
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| | | This is an archive of https://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme, my old blog | ||
