24.118 Paradox & Infinity, Spring 2013

This course explores different kinds of infinity; the paradoxes of set theory; the reduction of arithmetic to logic; formal systems; paradoxes involving the concept of truth; Gödel’s incompleteness theorems; the nonformalizable nature of mathematical truth; and Turing machines.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rayo, Agustín, Evans, Owain R.
Language:en-US
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123297