Entscheidungsproblem: The End of Mathematics?

Journey into Maths Country

S02E10
E10
October 10, 2023 10 min

Overview

Imagine a world where a machine could calculate true and false... Failing that, Church, Herbrand, Gödel and Turing each tried in their own way to determine whether an algorithm could decide whether or not a mathematical assertion could be proved. The Entscheidungsproblem, the decision problem that rocked maths and, in the process, laid the foundations of computer science.

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