Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)
Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) was a person.
References
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Gödel Retrieved:2015-9-13.
- Kurt Friedrich Gödel ([1] ; April 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978) was an Austrian, and later American, logician, mathematician, and philosopher. Considered with Aristotle and Gottlob Frege to be one of the most significant logicians in history, Gödel made an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century, a time when others such as Bertrand Russell,[2] A. N. Whitehead,[2] and David Hilbert were pioneering the use of logic and set theory to understand the foundations of mathematics.
Gödel published his two incompleteness theorems in 1931 when he was 25 years old, one year after finishing his doctorate at the University of Vienna. The first incompleteness theorem states that for any self-consistent recursive axiomatic system powerful enough to describe the arithmetic of the natural numbers (for example Peano arithmetic), there are true propositions about the naturals that cannot be proved from the axioms. To prove this theorem, Gödel developed a technique now known as Gödel numbering, which codes formal expressions as natural numbers.
He also showed that neither the axiom of choice nor the continuum hypothesis can be disproved from the accepted axioms of set theory, assuming these axioms are consistent. The former result opened the door for mathematicians to assume the axiom of choice in their proofs. He also made important contributions to proof theory by clarifying the connections between classical logic, intuitionistic logic, and modal logic.
- Kurt Friedrich Gödel ([1] ; April 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978) was an Austrian, and later American, logician, mathematician, and philosopher. Considered with Aristotle and Gottlob Frege to be one of the most significant logicians in history, Gödel made an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century, a time when others such as Bertrand Russell,[2] A. N. Whitehead,[2] and David Hilbert were pioneering the use of logic and set theory to understand the foundations of mathematics.
- ↑ "Gödel". Collins English Dictionary.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 For instance, in their Principia Mathematica (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy edition).
1931
- (Gödel, 1931) ⇒ Kurt Gödel. (1931). “Über Formal Unentscheidbare Sätze Der Principia Mathematica Und Verwandter Systeme I.” Monatshefte für mathematik und physik 38