RUSSELL AND GÖDEL

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Dec 2016 English Publisher:Cambridge University Press (CUP)Journal:The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, volume 22, pages 504-520 (issn: 1079-8986, eissn: 1943-5894,

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Authors: Alasdair Urquhart;

doi: 10.1017/bsl.2016.35

RUSSELL AND GÖDEL

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AbstractThis paper surveys the interactions between Russell and Gödel, both personal and intellectual. After a description of Russell’s influence on Gödel, it concludes with a discussion of Russell’s reaction to the incompleteness theorems.

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History of mathematics in the 20th century, History of mathematical logic and foundations, incompleteness theorem, Kurt Gödel, Gödel numberings and issues of incompleteness, \textit{Principia mathematica}, Bertrand Russell

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