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Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) was an Austrian-American mathematician, who is best known for his incompleteness theorems. He was the greatest mathematical logician of the 20th century, with his contributions extending to Einstein’s general relativity, as he proved that Einstein’s theory admits time machines. The Gödel incompleteness theorem - __one cannot prove nor disprove all true mathematical sentences in the usual formal mathematical systems__ - is frequently presented in textbooks as something that happens in the rarefied realm of mathematical logic, and that has nothing to do with the real world. Practice shows the contrary though; one can demonstrate the validity of the phenomenon in various areas, ranging from chaos theory and physics to economics and even ecology. In this lively treatise, based on Chaitin’s groundbreaking work and on the da Costa-Doria results in physics, ecology, economics and computer science, the authors show that the Gödel incompleteness phenomenon can directly bear on the practice of science and perhaps on our everyday life.This accessible book gives a new, detailed and elementary explanation of the Gödel incompleteness theorems and presents the Chaitin resul

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Author

Gregory J Chaitin; Francisco Antônio Doria; Newton C A da Costa

Publisher

CRC Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781136587610

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Mathematics, Engineering, Science