Mind-Bending Math: Riddles and Paradoxes Season 1 Episode 10 Gödel Proves the Unprovable

  • TV-PG
  • July 24, 2015
  • 29 min

Study the discovery that destroyed the dream of an axiomatic system that could prove all mathematical truths - Kurt Gödel's demonstration that mathematical consistency is a mirage and that the price for avoiding paradoxes is incompleteness. Outline Gödel's proof, seeing how it relates to the liar's paradox from Lecture 1.

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  • First Aired
    July 24, 2015
  • Content Rating
    TV-PG
  • Runtime
    29 min
  • Language
    English
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