Mind-Bending Math: Riddles and Paradoxes

Gödel Proves the Unprovable (1x10)


Air date: Jul 23, 2015

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 Episode 1.

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