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Mathematical Logic II: Mathematics -- Incompleteness
PHIL 144

Jointly Offered with: Faculty of Arts & Sciences as MATH 144

Course Information

Description

An introduction to limitative results in mathematics from a meta-mathematical point of view. Topics include: Gödel's incompleteness theorems, Turing's analysis of computability, and the hierarchy of mathematical systems as ordered under interpretability.

School Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits 4
Cross Reg

Available for Harvard Cross Registration

Department Philosophy
Course Component Lecture
Subject Philosophy
Grading Basis FAS Letter Graded
Course Requirements Anti-requisite: Cannot be taken for credit if MATH 144 already compete or in progress.
General Education N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data N/A
Divisional Distribution Science & Engineering & Applied Science
Course Level For Undergraduate and Graduate Students