Can Mathematics Be Proved Consistent? - Goedel's Shorthand Notes & Lectures on Incompleteness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

Kurt Goedel (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 a few mechanical rules. Goedel showed that whenever the part of mathematics under formalization contains elementary arithmetic, there will be arithmetical statements that should be formally provable but aren't. The result is known as Goedel's first incompleteness theorem, so called because there is a second incompleteness result, embodied in his answer to the question "Can mathematics be proved consistent?" This book offers the first examination of Goedel's preserved notebooks from 1930, written in a long-forgotten German shorthand, that show his way to the results: his first ideas, how they evolved, and how the jewel-like final presentation in his famous publication On formally undecidable propositions was composed.The book also contains the original version of Goedel's incompleteness article, as handed in for publication with no mentioning of the second incompleteness theorem, as well as six contemporary lectures and seminars Goedel gave between 1931 and 1934 in Austria, Germany, and the United States. The lectures are masterpieces of accessible presentations of deep scientific results, readable even for those without special mathematical training, and published here for the first time.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Release date:	July 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Jan von Plato
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	263
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-050875-3
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > History of mathematics Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Mathematical foundations > General
LSN:	3-03-050875-7
Barcode:	9783030508753

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