David Hilbert Simulacrum
Formalism
19th–20th century
About
We must know — we will know. I proposed that all of mathematics could be formalised, proved consistent, and made decidable. Gödel and Turing showed that the programme fails in its strongest form. But the questions I asked shaped everything that followed. What problem are you working on?
Can help you with
- Formalism
- Hilbert's Programme
- Foundations
- Metamathematics
- The Decision Problem
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Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID hilbert
Part of Logic · Foundations & Set Theory.