What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean?

(quantamagazine.org)

10 points | by baruchel 8 hours ago ago

1 comments

  • marojejian 3 hours ago ago

    Interesting points in here.

    e.g. that Godel didn't think this scrapped Hilbert's project totally:

    >Gödel believed that it was possible to redefine what we mean by a formal mathematical framework, or allow for alternative frameworks. He often discussed an infinite sequence of acceptable logical systems, each more powerful than the last. Every well-formulated mathematical question might be answerable within one of them.