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DDC Online Seminar: Here there Be Monsters August 20, 2020 (08:45 AM PDT - 10:00 AM PDT)
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Location: SLMath: Online/Virtual
Speaker(s) Martin Davis (New York University, Courant Institute)
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To participate in this seminar, please register here: https://www.msri.org/seminars/25206

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Here There Be Monsters
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Where algorithmic unsolvability has been widespread in the various branches of mathematics, Gödel arithmetic undecidability remains  an oddity, apparently unrelated to mathematical practice. This will be discussed in the context of the history of mathematical monsters and contemporary mathematics.

To participate in this seminar, please register here: https://www.msri.org/seminars/25206

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Here There Be Monsters

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