Gödel’s Legacy

Martin Davis ()
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Martin Davis: New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

A chapter in Humanizing Mathematics and its Philosophy, 2017, pp 215-222 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In his truly remarkable paper of 1931, Kurt Gödel casts grave doubts on the viability of Hilbert’s program for providing a consistent foundation for mathematics. In addition, it compelled logicians to view their subject through entirely new lenses. Two years later, Gödel was invited by the Mathematical Association of America to address one of its meetings. In his address, he spoke as follows:

Keywords: Consistent Foundation; Diophantine Condition; Zermelo-Fraenkel Axioms; Classical Complex Function Theory; Usual Formal Systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-61231-7_18

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