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As we have seen in this series, these theorems demonstrated that for formal systems containing arithmetic: * There exist propositions that can be neither proven nor disproven. * The system itself ...

In the main text and the appendices, when explaining the incompleteness theorems, I have repeatedly used the term "a sufficiently strong formal system." Both the first incompleteness theorem and the ...

Rick and Morty Season 9 premiered Sunday night on Adult Swim with an episode that embedded three distinct and rigorous scientific and mathematical frameworks into its plot mechanics — not as ...

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic ...

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At 25, Kurt Gödel proved there can never be a mathematical “theory of everything.” Columnist Natalie Wolchover explores the implications. In 1931, by turning logic on itself, Kurt Gödel proved a pair ...

Be careful what you wish for. This idea, often explored in fiction, lies at the center of “Obsession,” Focus Features‘ new horror film from writer/director/editor Curry Barker. The movie follows Bear ...

The Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors' combo system is the most powerful feature in the game, yet it's easily overlooked. If you play your cards in a certain order, you will ...

Kurt Gödel, the man who ruined mathematics, was one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century. He was born in 1906, smack-bang in the middle of the greatest crisis that maths has ever known.