Proof And Paradox

Delve deeper into the effort to prove that the logical consistency of mathematics can be reduced to basic arithmetic. Fo... (more)

Delve deeper into the effort to prove that the logical consistency of mathematics can be reduced to basic arithmetic. Follow the work of David Hilbert, Georg Cantor, Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and others. Learn how Kurt Godel’s incompleteness theorems sounded the death knell for this ambitious project. (less)