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Mathematics

Foundations & Logic

What mathematics rests on, and the limits of what it can prove about itself.

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  • On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the EntscheidungsproblemAlan Turing, 1936· 36 pages

    Defines the universal machine and proves the halting problem undecidable — the founding document of computer science.

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