GODEL'S THEOREM


Meaning of GODEL'S THEOREM in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈgō-dəlz-, ˈgər-, ˈgœ- ]

noun

Etymology: Kurt Gödel died 1978 American mathematician

Date: 1933

: a theorem in advanced logic: in any logical system as complex as or more complex than the arithmetic of the integers there can always be found either a statement which can be shown to be both true and false or a statement whose truth or falsity cannot be deduced from other statements in the system — called also Godel's incompleteness theorem

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