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This title provides a clear and accessible treatment of Godel's famous, intriguing, but much misunderstood incompleteness theorems, extensively revised in a second edition. In 1931, the young Kurt Goedel published his First Incompleteness Theorem, which tells us that, for any sufficiently rich theory of arithmetic, there are some arithmetical truths the theory cannot prove. This remarkable result is among the most intriguing (and most misunderstood) in logic. Goedel also outlined an equally significant Second Incompleteness Theorem. How are these Theorems established, and why do they matter? Peter Smith answers these questions by presenting an unusual variety of proofs for the First Theorem, showing how to prove the Second Theorem, and exploring a family of related results (including some not easily available elsewhere). The formal explanations are interwoven with discussions of the wider significance of the two Theorems. This book - extensively rewritten for its second edition - will be accessible to philosophy students with a limited formal background. It is equally suitable for mathematics students taking a first course in mathematical logic

Author

Peter Smith

Publisher

Cambridge, England ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781107606753

Subjects

Mathematics, Stem

Updated

2026-03-24