Rating: *****
Tags: Lang:en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Added: September 24, 2020
Modified: November 5, 2021
Summary
The logician Kurt Gödel (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 Gödel'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. **