Interpreting Goedel - Critical Essays (Paperback)

The logician Kurt Goedel (1906-1978) published a paper in 1931 formulating what have come to be known as his 'incompleteness theorems', which prove, among other things, that within any formal system with resources sufficient to code arithmetic, questions exist which are neither provable nor disprovable on the basis of the axioms which define the system. These are among the most celebrated results in logic today. In this volume, leading philosophers and mathematicians assess important aspects of Goedel's work on the foundations and philosophy of mathematics. Their essays explore almost every aspect of Godel's intellectual legacy including his concepts of intuition and analyticity, the Completeness Theorem, the set-theoretic multiverse, and the state of mathematical logic today. This groundbreaking volume will be invaluable to students, historians, logicians and philosophers of mathematics who wish to understand the current thinking on these issues.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2017
Editors:	Juliette Kennedy
Dimensions:	230 x 150 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	292
ISBN-13:	978-1-316-63977-1
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Philosophy of mathematics Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > History of mathematics Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Mathematical foundations > Mathematical logic
LSN:	1-316-63977-0
Barcode:	9781316639771

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