Monday, September 14, 2015

Gödel not just good for incompleteness

This theorem is not provable
Kurt Gödel was famous for his incompleteness theorems (GIT) which entirely destroyed Hilbert's program (not really, just changed it's direction) and changed the face of philosophy of mathematics (probably should have but frankly not really), created recursive function theory and proof theory (pretty much).

But he is also well known within logic for many ground-breaking results there.

These results are

I suppose there are other things that he did that would have made him famous if it weren't for each one of the above.


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