Metamathematics, Machines and Gödel's Proof

by Natarajan Shankar and N. Shankar

The automatic verification of large parts of mathematics has been an aim of many mathematicians from Leibniz to Hilbert. While G del's first incompleteness theorem showed that no computer program could automatically prove certain true theorems in mathematics, the advent of electronic computers and sophisticated software means in practice there are many quite effective systems for automated reasoning that can be used for checking mathematical proofs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521585333
• ISBN13: 9780521585330
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.6" x 9.1"