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Kurt Gödel is considered along with whom to be one of the most significant logicians in history?
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Along with Aristotle and Frege, Kurt Gödel is considered one of the most significant logicians in history. Gödel is best known for his incompleteness theorems, which showed that no consistent system of axioms whose theorems can be listed by an "effective procedure" is capable of proving all truths about the natural numbers.
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More Questions
Which theorem states that for a powerful enough system to explain the arithmetic of natural numbers, some propositions can be neither proved nor disproved?
Which two well-known mathematicians were building on the work of Dedekind, Cantor, and Frege during Gödel's time?
Gödel's incompleteness theorems were published in what year?
The first incompleteness theorem deals with what kind of system?
The second incompleteness theorem follows from which other theorem?
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