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cromwell-intl.com
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| | | | | Hypercomputation is a wished-for magic that simply can't exist given the way that logic and mathematics work. Its purported imminence serves as an excuse for AI promoters. | |
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neilmadden.blog
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| | | | | I saw another article on Gödel's incompleteness theorems linked from Reddit today. It's a topic I've wanted to write about for some time. Although many articles do a decent job in giving an idea of what the big deal is (and this one is pretty good), they can sometimes give a misleading impression of what... | |
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www.logicmatters.net
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| | | | | Yuri Manin who died last year was a seriously distinguished mathematician, being - for instance - one of the first recipients of the Schock Prize for mathematics. His interests ranged very widely, from algebra and topology to quantum field theory. So A Course in Mathematical Logic for Mathematicians (1977 translation, Springer) is written by an [...] | |
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dvt.name
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| | | Gödel's incompleteness theorems have been hailed as "the greatest mathematical discoveries of the 20th century" - indeed, the theorems apply not only to mathematics, but all formal systems and have deep implications for science, logic, computer science, philosophy, and so on. In this post, I'll give a simple but rigorous sketch of Gödel's First Incompleteness ... | ||
