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Pégny, Maël 2012. Les deux formes de la thèse de Church-Turing et l’épistémologie du calcul. Philosophia Scientae, p. 39.

Deciphering the EUs new regulation of organic wine from 8 March 2012, is as confusing as understanding Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem or the Laws of Cricket. It relies on the normal rules of ...

Similarly in mathematics, Gödel's incompleteness theorem tells us that, given a formal theory proving certain basic arithmetic truths, there are other arithmetical statements that are also true ...

If by 'great' we mean 'heroic', then Andrew Wiles' proof of Fermat's Theorem deserves mention. But for sheer intellectual surprise, and alarming insight, it is hard to think of any result that ...

Kurt Gödel, mathematician and logician, was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Gödel fled Nazi Germany, fearing for his Jewish wife and fed up with Nazi interference in the ...

Watch The Land of Mathematics A Complex Picnic 11 min Watch the programme In this episode, we look at the relationship between maths and truth. Maths is meant to be certain, either right or wrong.

“The Matrix is everywhere; it is all around us. Even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or ...

This course is available on the BSc in Philosophy and Economics, BSc in Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and BSc in Politics and Philosophy. This ...

This course is available on the MSc in Philosophy of Economics and the Social Sciences and MSc in Philosophy of Science. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes ...

An understanding of how to use Pythagoras’ theorem to find missing sides in a right-angled triangle is essential for applying the theorem in different contexts. (3,1) is the coordinate that is 3 ...