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THINKING ABOUT GÖDEL AND TURING: Essays on Complexity, 1970-2007 by Gregory J. Chaitin, 2007-08-06 Foundations of Probability and Physics - 5 (AIP Conference Proceedings) Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel (Great Discoveries) by Rebecca Goldstein, 2005-02 Inexhaustibility: A Non-Exhaustive Treatment, Lecture Notes in Logic 16 (Lecture Notes in Logic, 16) by Torkel Franzen, 2004-09 Formal Number Theory and Computability: A Workbook (Oxford Science Publications) by Alec Fisher, 1982-09-23 Mechanism, Mentalism and Metamathematics: An Essay on Finitism (Synthese Library) by J. Webb, 1980-10-31 Godel's incompleteness results by Susan M Schilling, 1981 Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness by Roger Penrose, 1994-10-20

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41. Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem -- Facts, Info, And Encyclopedia Article
    Gödel s second incompleteness theorem is motivated by the question whether Gödel s first incompleteness theorem shows that any such system that allows  
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    Extractions: var dc_UnitID = 10; var dc_PublisherID = 512; var dc_BackgroundColor1 = 'white'; var dc_BackgroundColor2 = 'white'; var dc_TitleColor = 'blue'; var dc_TextColor = 'black'; var dc_URLColor = 'blue'; var dc_URLVisitedColor = 'green'; var dc_sm_type = 'horizontal'; var dc_Width = 700; var dc_Height = 75; var dc_caption_font_bgColor = 'white'; var dc_caption_font_color = 'blue'; var dc_OutBorder = 'no'; var dc_adprod='TM'; [Categories: Proof theory, Model theory, Mathematical logic, Theorems] In (Any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity) mathematical logic Gödel's incompleteness theorems are two celebrated theorems proved by (Click link for more info and facts about Kurt Gödel) Kurt Gödel in 1931. The first theorem is one of the most famous outside of mathematics, and one of the most misunderstood. It is a theorem in formal logic , and as such is easy to misinterpret. There are many statements that sound similar to Gödel's first incompleteness theorem, but are in fact not true, see misconceptions about Gödel's theorems below. Somewhat simplified, this theorem can be paraphrased as:

42. Incompleteness Theorem
    An Outline of Gödel s incompleteness theorem and its Proof. (From Rucker, Infinityand the Mind .) Someone introduces Gödel to a UTM, a machine that is  
    http://www.braungardt.com/Mathematica/Incompleteness Theorem.htm
    
    Extractions: Philosophy Psychoanalysis Religion Theologie Theology Lacan Physics Mathematics Psychotherapy Thinking Up Mathematical Quotes Paul Erdös Quotes by Georg Cantor ... Prime Number Theorem Incompleteness Theorem Inconsistent Mathematics Very Large Numbers Perfect numbers and primes The Klein bottle ... Open Questions (From Rucker, Infinity and the Mind Someone introduces Gödel to a UTM, a machine that is supposed to be a Universal Truth Machine, capable of correctly answering any question at all. Gödel asks for the program and the circuit design of the UTM. The program may be complicated, but it can only be finitely long. Call the program P(UTM) for Program of the Universal Truth Machine. Smiling a little, Gödel writes out the following sentence: "The machine constructed on the basis of the program P(UTM) will never say that this sentence is true." Call this sentence G for Gödel. Note that G is equivalent to: "UTM will never say G is true." Now Gödel laughs his high laugh and asks UTM whether G is true or not.

43. Explanation Of Godel S Theorems By Harry Deutsch At Illinois
    Godel s First incompleteness theorem states that in any formal system F incompleteness theorem reveals a gap between the notions of proof and truth.  
    http://dubinserver.colorado.edu/prj/cca/godel.html

44. The History And Kinds Of Logic: LOGIC SYSTEMS: Metalogic: DISCOVERIES ABOUT FORM
    The two incompleteness theorems. The first and most central finding in this fieldis that systems such as N are incomplete and incompletable because Gödel s  
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    Extractions: New Search : Articles Index Dictionary The two incompleteness theorems. Let us consider the sentence (2) This sentence is not provable in the system. p that could be viewed as expressing (2). Once such a sentence is obtained, some strong conclusions result. If the system is complete, then either the sentence p or its negation is a theorem of the system. If p is a theorem, then intuitively p or (2) is false, and there is in some sense a false theorem in the system. Similarly, if p is a theorem, then it says that (2) or that p is provable in the system. Since p is a theorem, it should be true, and there seem then to be two conflicting sentences that are both truenamely, p is provable in the system and p is provable in it. This can be the case only if the system is inconsistent. -consistent, then p is undecidable in it. The notion of -consistency is stronger than consistency, but it is a very reasonable requirement, since it demands merely that one cannot prove in a system both that some number does not have the property A and yet for each number that it does have the property A i.e.

45. Gödel's Theorem
    95; Dale Myers, Gödel s incompleteness theorem A very nice web page that buildsslowly to the proof; Roger Penrose, The Emperor s New Mind Does a  
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    Extractions: Notebooks 04 Jul 2005 23:43 A much-abused result in mathematical logic , supposed by many authors who don't understand it to support their own favored brand of rubbish, and even subjected to surprisingly rough handling by some who really should know better. consistent if, given the axioms and the derivation rules, we can never derive two contradictory propositions; obviously, we want our axiomatic systems to be consistent. (The trick is to replace each symbol in the proposition, including numerals, either the system is inconsistent (horrors!), or there are true propositions which can't be reached from the axioms by applying the derivation rules. The system is thus incomplete, and the truth of those propositions is undecidable (within that system). Such undecidable propositions are known as or Update, June 2005 : Actually, that's wrong. Wolfgang Beirl has pointed out to me that Goodstein's Theorem is a result about natural numbers which is undecidable within Peano arithmetic, but provable within stronger set-theoretic systems. And it's actually a neat theorem, with no self-referential weirdness!] So far we've just been talking about Peano arithemtic, but now comes the kicker. Results about an axiomatic system apply to any bunch of things which satisfy the axioms. There are an immense number of other axiomatic systems which either include Peanese numbers among their basic entities, or where such things can be put together; they either have numbers, or can construct them. (These systems are said to provide

46. Godel's Second Incompleteness Theorem Explained In Words Of One Syllable@Everyth
    Godel s Second incompleteness theorem explained in words of one syllable Godel s Second incompleteness theorem says, officially, that given a set of  
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47. Gödel’s Theorems (PRIME)
    urt Gödel is most famous for his second incompleteness theorem, There areother results which Gödel’s incompleteness theorems made possible.  
    http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/prime/articles/godel/index.asp
    
    Extractions: logic and beyond, this result is only the middle movement, so to speak, of a metamathematical symphony of results stretching from 1929 through 1937. These results are: (1) the Completeness Theorem; (2) the First and Second Incompleteness Theorems; and (3) the consistency of the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis (GCH) and the Axiom of Choice (AC) with the other axioms of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory . These results are discussed in detail below. In 1928, David Hilbert and Wilhelm Ackermann published , a slender but potent text on the foundations of logic. In this text they posed the question of whether a certain system of axioms for the first-order predicate calculus is complete, i.e., whether every logically valid sentence in first-order logic can be derived from the

48. Goedel's Theorem And Information
    At the time of its discovery, Kurt Gödel s incompleteness theorem was a great shock Gödel s original proof of the incompleteness theorem is based on the  
    http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/CDMTCS/chaitin/georgia.html
    
    Extractions: Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 To set the stage, let us listen to Hermann Weyl (1946), as quoted by Eric Temple Bell (1951): We are less certain than ever about the ultimate foundations of (logic and) mathematics. Like everybody and everything in the world today, we have our ``crisis.'' We have had it for nearly fifty years. Outwardly it does not seem to hamper our daily work, and yet I for one confess that it has had a considerable practical influence on my mathematical life: it directed my interests to fields I considered relatively ``safe,'' and has been a constant drain on the enthusiasm and determination with which I pursued my research work. This experience is probably shared by other mathematicians who are not indifferent to what their scientific endeavors mean in the context of man's whole caring and knowing, suffering and creative existence in the world. And these are the words of John von Neumann (1963): ... there have been within the experience of people now living at least three serious crises... There have been two such crises in physics-namely, the conceptual soul-searching connected with the discovery of relativity and the conceptual difficulties connected with discoveries in quantum theory... The third crisis was in mathematics. It was a very serious conceptual crisis, dealing with rigor and the proper way to carry out a correct mathematical proof. In view of the earlier notions of the absolute rigor of mathematics, it is surprising that such a thing could have happened, and even more surprising that it could have happened in these latter days when miracles are not supposed to take place. Yet it did happen.

49. CiteULike: Godel's Second Incompleteness Theorem For Q
    Godel s Second incompleteness theorem for Q. The Journal of Symbolic Logic, Vol.41, No. 2. (1976), pp. 503512. Authors. Bezboruah A, Shepherdson JC  
    http://www.citeulike.org/user/rzach/article/214423

50. The First And Second Incompleteness Theorem (from Logic, History Of) --  Encycl
    The first and second incompleteness theorem (from logic, history of) Gödel sfirst incompleteness theorem, from 1931, stands as a major turning point of  
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    Extractions: Home Browse Newsletters Store ... Subscribe Already a member? Log in Content Related to this Topic This Article's Table of Contents Expand all Collapse all Introduction Origins of logic in the West Precursors of ancient logic Aristotle Categorical forms Syllogisms ... Late representatives of ancient Greek logic Medieval logic Transmission of Greek logic to the Latin West Arabic logic The revival of logic in Europe St. Anselm and Peter Abelard Developments in the 13th and early 14th centuries The theory of supposition Developments in modal logic ... Logic and philosophies of mathematics Logic narrowly construed Formal logical systems: syntax Formal semantics changeTocNode('toc65954','img65954'); The first and second incompleteness theorem Decidability Other developments Nonmathematical formal logic ... Print this Table of Contents Shopping Price: USD $1495 Revised, updated, and still unrivaled. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (Hardcover) Price: USD $15.95 The Scrabble player's bible on sale! Save 30%.

51. The Two Incompleteness Theorems (from Metalogic) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
    The two incompleteness theorems (from metalogic) The first and most centralfinding in this field is that systems such as N are incomplete and incompletable  
    http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-65869
    
    Extractions: Home Browse Newsletters Store ... Subscribe Already a member? Log in Content Related to this Topic This Article's Table of Contents Expand all Collapse all Introduction Nature, origins, and influences of metalogic Syntax and semantics The axiomatic method Logic and metalogic Semiotic ... Influences in other directions Nature of a formal system and of its formal language Example of a formal system Formation rules Axioms and rules of inference Truth definition of the given language ... Discoveries about formal mathematical systems The two incompleteness theorems Decidability and undecidability Consistency proofs Discoveries about logical calculi The propositional calculus ... The undecidability theorem and reduction classes Model theory Background and typical problems Satisfaction of a theory by a structure: finite and infinite models Elementary logic Nonelementary logic and future developments ... Print this Table of Contents Shopping Price: USD $1495 Revised, updated, and still unrivaled. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (Hardcover) Price: USD $15.95

52. Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems Hold Vacuously
    Gödel’s incompleteness theorems hold vacuously. Bhupinder Singh Anand1 Gödel’s First incompleteness theorem. Theorem VI of Gödel’s seminal 1931 paper  
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    Extractions: Index G del’s Incompleteness Theorems hold vacuously Bhupinder Singh Anand A copy of this essay can be downloaded as a .pdf file from http://arXiv.org/abs/math/0207080 This essay has been completely revised and superceded by a later essay G del’s Theorem XI essentially states that, if there is a P -formula Con P whose standard interpretation is equivalent to the assertion “ P is consistent”, then Con P is not P -provable. We argue that there is no such formula. Introduction G del’s First Incompleteness Theorem Theorem VI of G del’s seminal 1931 paper , commonly referred to as “G del’s First Incompleteness Theorem”, essentially asserts: Meta-theorem 1 : Every omega-consistent formal system P of Arithmetic contains a proposition "[( A x R x p )]” such that both "[( A x R x p )]” and "[~( A x R x p )]” are not P -provable. In an earlier essay , we argue, however, that a constructive interpretation of G del’s reasoning establishes that any formal system of Arithmetic is omega-inconsistent. It follows from this that G del’s Theorem VI holds vacuously.

53. Peter Suber, "Gödel's Proof"
    Hunter s proof of Gödel s first incompleteness theorem differs from Gödel s Gödel s second incompleteness theorem follows as a corollary from the first.  
    http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/logsys/g-proof.htm
    
    Extractions: Proof pairs With the predicate Pxy we can also say that some wff A is not x)Pxa says that there is no sequence that proves A, or that there is no proof pair with a as its second member, or simply that ~ A. We could also say (x)~Pxa. These expressions are about numbers in one interpretation, but they are about the proof theory of S in another. We cannot say that the number theory interpretation is "primary" and the metatheory interpretation "secondary" or nonstandard except in reference to human intentions. As meanings supported by the syntax, they are on a par. Self-Reference Of coures the closed wff, Nn, is talking about the open wff, Nx, which makes the self-reference even more oblique. I will break the proof into four steps: (1) formulating G and understanding how it can simultaneously make an assertion about numbers and about its own provability, (2) showing that G is undecidable, (3) showing that G is true, and (4) drawing the consequences for the incompleteness of S. Formulating G Here's how to construct G. First we make the following wff:

54. 1.1.3 Gödel Incompleteness Theorems -- Neil Thapen -- 16 HT
    1.1.3 Gödel incompleteness theorems Neil Thapen 16 HT.  
    http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/current-students/undergraduates/handbooks-synopses/200
    
    Extractions: Subsections Prerequisites: b1 This course introduces important techniques and results in modern logic which go to the heart of the relationship between truth and formal proof, in particular that show how to obtain, for any consistent formal system containing basic arithmetic, a sentence in the language of that system which is true but not provable in the system. -function; the representation of functions and sets. -completeness. Abstract provability systems; the logic of provability. The undecidability of first-order logical validity. The Hilbert-Bernays arithmetized completeness theorem; a formally undecided sentence of arithmetic whose truth value is not known. The -rule. R.M. Smullyan, , OUP (1992) G.S. Boolos and R.C. Jeffrey, Computability and Logic , 3rd edition, CUP (1989), Chs 15, 16, pp 170-190

55. Read About Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem At WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Researc
    Gödel s incompleteness theorem. Everything you wanted to know about Gödel sincompleteness theorem but had no clue how to find it.  
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    Extractions: edit The first theorem is one of the most famous outside of mathematics, and one of the most misunderstood. It is a theorem in formal logic , and as such is easy to misinterpret. There are many statements that sound similar to Gödel's first incompleteness theorem, but are in fact not true, see misconceptions about Gödel's theorems below. Somewhat simplified, this theorem can be paraphrased as: This simplified formulation however omits some critical qualifications that make it quite misleading. A more informative (but still omitting some important technical details) paraphrase is: If a formal system is sufficiently strong to axiomatize the natural numbers and is limited to finitistic induction and is reinterpreted as its own proof system, it is possible to construct a true statement that can only be proven if inconsistency is allowed between the theory and its reintepretation as a proof theory

56. Birth Of Mathematician Kurt Godel
    For this reason, Godel s first proof is called the incompleteness theorem. Godel s second theorem says no one can prove, from inside any complex formal  
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57. Pk Incompleteness "Theorem"
    Incompleteness, pk, modules, theorem. pk’s incompleteness theorem Our knowledgeof matter’s time line must remain incomplete.  
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    Extractions: technical / site files Incompleteness, pk, modules, theorem Incompleteness Theorem Heisenberg theorized that any experimental observation of the fundamental particles of matter must always remain incomplete. In order to observe an electron, the electron must be lit. The minimum amount of light that can make contact with an electron is one photon. If you bounce a photon off an electron, both things must change velocity: the photon will maintain c speed but will alter in direction: the electron will have both its speed and its direction altered. The light shows where the electron was funny, clever (for a kid) ... and utterly, as so many school grades would thereafter record, incomplete When I won the round robin fencing tournament In 1966 great GBS scholar Dan Laurence tried to hire me to be his grad school reader. In twenty years of teaching graduate school, he had never had a student like me: the vocabulary, the interest, the passion ... Oh, no , NYU said, He has "Incompletes." By the following year I had pretty well blocked out my doctoral thesis understanding significant : not only to the Sonnets but to Western ahem, thought

58. Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem - Enpsychlopedia
    Search for G¶del s incompleteness theorem in other articles. Look for G¶del sincompleteness theorem in Wiktionary, our sister dictionary project.  
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59. Godel's Incompleteness Theorem And The Limits Of Human Knowledge
    Gödel s incompleteness theorem and the Limits of Human Knowledge For all ofus, Gödel’s incompleteness theorem results in the realization of the  
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    Extractions: University of Alabama in Huntsville For Mathematicians, the theorem means that any formal system trying to capture all mathematical truths in a finite set of axioms and rules is doomed to failure.For philosophers, it means that truth is elusive and ultimately unattainable. For all of us, Gödel’s incompleteness theorem results in the realization of the limitations of the human mind, and of the nobleness of our pursuit of knowledge. “Down how many roads among the stars must man propel himself in search of the final secret? The journey is difficult, immense, at times impossible, yet that will not deter some of us from attempting it…”

60. Godel Incompleteness Theorem
    Meme Name, Godel incompleteness theorem. Category, mathematics. Related Concepts.Related Links. Core Concept. No complete truth exists.  
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