In 1931, a twenty-five-year-old Austrian logician called Kurt Gödel published the Incompleteness Theorems, which proved two fundamental limitations in maths. First, they proved that there are mathematical truths which can’t be proven, and second, that maths itself can’t be proven to be internally consistent using its fundamental assumptions and deductive rules.
Gödel and the Limits of Mathematics
Gödel and the Limits of Mathematics
Gödel and the Limits of Mathematics
In 1931, a twenty-five-year-old Austrian logician called Kurt Gödel published the Incompleteness Theorems, which proved two fundamental limitations in maths. First, they proved that there are mathematical truths which can’t be proven, and second, that maths itself can’t be proven to be internally consistent using its fundamental assumptions and deductive rules.