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Author Smullyan, Raymond M

Title Gödel's incompleteness theorems / Raymond M. Smullyan
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 139 pages)
Series Oxford logic guides ; 19
Oxford logic guides ; 19.
Contents I: The General Idea Behind Gödel's Proof; II: Tarski's Theorem for Arithmetic; III: The Incompleteness of Peano Arithmetic With Exponentiation; IV: Arithmetic Without the Exponential; V: Gödel's Proof Based on?-Consistency; VI: Rosser Systems; VII: Shepherdson's Representation Theorems; VIII: Definablity and Diagonalization; IX: The Unprovability of Consistency; X: Some General Remarks on Provability and Truth; XI: Self-Referential Systems; References; Index
Summary An introduction to the work of the mathematical logician Kurt Godel, which guides the reader through his Theorem of Undecidability and his theories on the completeness of logic, the incompleteness of numbers and the consistency of the axiom of choice
Analysis Mathematical logic
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Gödel's theorem.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Incompleteness theorems.
MATHEMATICS -- Infinity.
MATHEMATICS -- Logic.
Incompleteness theorems
Gödel's theorem
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
Gödelscher Unvollständigkeitssatz
Onvolledigheidsstelling.
Gödel, théorème de.
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