First English translation of revolutionary paper (1931) that established that even in elementary parts of arithmetic, there are propositions which cannot be pro

In 1931, a young Austrian mathematician published an epoch-making paper containing one of the most revolutionary ideas in logic since Aristotle. Kurt Giidel mai

In 1931 Kurt Gödel published his paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems." Gödel’s paper challenged certai

Kurt Gödel, together with Bertrand Russell, is the most important name in logic, and in the foundations and philosophy of mathematics of this century. However,

This well-known book by the famed logician consists of three treatises: A General Method in Proofs of Undecidability, Undecidability and Essential Undecidabilit