Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems/Historical Note

Historical Note on Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems

Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems answered the second of Hilbert's $23$ (then) unsolved problems of mathematics.

Hence it ended attempts, like those of Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, to develop the whole of mathematics from a finite set of logical axioms.

It also damages the idea of finding a finite set of basic axioms of physics to define all natural phenomena.


Sources

  • 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Gödel's proof
  • 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Gödel's proof
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