On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems

by Kurt Gödel

Paperback, 1992

Status

Available

Call number

511.3

Collection

Publication

Dover Publications (1992), 80 pages

Description

First English translation of revolutionary paper (1931) that established that even in elementary parts of arithmetic, there are propositions which cannot be proved or disproved within the system. It is thus uncertain that the basic axioms of arithmetic will not give rise to contradictions. Introduction by R. B. Braithwaite.

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1931 (original German)
1962 (English translation)

Physical description

80 p.; 5.1 inches

ISBN

0486669807 / 9780486669809

UPC

800759669806
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