Gödel's disjunction : the scope and limits of mathematical knowledge /

The logician Kurt Godel in 1951 established a disjunctive thesis about the scope and limits of mathematical knowledge: either the mathematical mind is equivalent to a Turing machine (i.e., a computer), or there are absolutely undecidable mathematical problems. In the second half of the twentieth cen...

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Main Authors:	Horsten, Leon (Author), Welsh, Philip (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Gödel, Kurt. Gödel, Kurt Mathematics > Philosophy. Mathématiques > Philosophie. MATHEMATICS > History & Philosophy. Mathematics > Philosophy Electronic books.
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