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Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems

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📖Definition

In any consistent formal system containing arithmetic, there exist true but unprovable statements. Also, the system cannot prove its own consistency.

📐Formulas

1st: There exists a true but unprovable statement

Incompleteness

2nd: System cannot prove its own consistency

Self-reference limitation

✏️Examples

예제 1

Why is Gödel sentence G: 'This statement is unprovable' true?

📜History

Discovered by: Kurt Gödel (1931)

Response to Hilbert's program; revealed fundamental limits of mathematics.

Applications

Logic

Limits of proof theory

Computer Science

Undecidability, halting problem

Philosophy

Debates on nature of mathematics

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