Proof theory is a major branch of mathematical logic and theoretical computer science within which proofs are treated as formal mathematical objects,...
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involvement of natural language, are considered in proof theory. The distinction between formal and informal proofs has led to much examination of current and...
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structural proof theory is the subdiscipline of proof theory that studies proof calculi that support a notion of analytic proof, a kind of proof whose semantic...
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Major subareas include model theory, proof theory, set theory, and recursion theory (also known as computability theory). Research in mathematical logic...
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computability theory overlaps with proof theory and effective descriptive set theory. Basic questions addressed by computability theory include: What...
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theoretic ideas from Iwasawa theory, and other 20th-century techniques which were not available to Fermat. The proof's method of identification of a...
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Mathematical proof Proof assistant Proof calculus Proof theory Proof (truth) De Bruijn factor Kassios, Yannis (February 20, 2009). "Formal Proof" (PDF). cs...
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Consistency (redirect from Consistency proof)
A consistency proof is a mathematical proof that a particular theory is consistent. The early development of mathematical proof theory was driven by the...
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Alonzo Church Intuitionistic type theory of Per Martin-Löf Most computerized proof-writing systems use a type theory for their foundation. A common one...
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the comment that "if proof theory is about the sacred, then model theory is about the profane". The applications of model theory to algebraic and Diophantine...
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Tarski–Grothendieck set theory. PhoX – A proof assistant based on higher-order logic which is eXtensible. Prototype Verification System (PVS) – a proof language and...
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Logical consequence (redirect from Proof-theoretic consequence)
the concept in terms of proofs and via models. The study of the syntactic consequence (of a logic) is called (its) proof theory whereas the study of (its)...
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Cantor's diagonal argument (redirect from Diagonal proof)
treated by the theory of cardinal numbers, which Cantor began. Georg Cantor published this proof in 1891,: 20– but it was not his first proof of the uncountability...
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In mathematical logic, a proof calculus or a proof system is built to prove statements. A proof system includes the components: Formal language: The set...
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Theorem (category Mathematical proofs)
deducing rules. This formalization led to proof theory, which allows proving general theorems about theorems and proofs. In particular, Gödel's incompleteness...
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constructive and non-constructive proofs have been presented as "Cantor's proof." The popularity of presenting a non-constructive proof has led to a misconception...
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striking claimed application of the theory is to provide a proof for various outstanding conjectures in number theory, in particular the abc conjecture...
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uncountability proof, which differs from the more familiar proof using his diagonal argument. Cantor introduced fundamental constructions in set theory, such as...
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Peano axioms (category Formal theories of arithmetic)
interpreted as a proof within a first-order set theory, such as ZFC, Dedekind's categoricity proof for PA shows that each model of set theory has a unique...
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Automated theorem proving (redirect from Automatic proof system)
by any first-order theory (such as the integers). A simpler, but related, problem is proof verification, where an existing proof for a theorem is certified...
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Mathematical proof Direct proof Reductio ad absurdum Proof by exhaustion Constructive proof Nonconstructive proof Tautology Consistency proof Arithmetization...
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John von Neumann (section Proof theory)
continued looking for a more general proof of the consistency of classical mathematics using methods from proof theory. A strongly negative answer to whether...
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for example, in the proof that there is no free complete lattice on three or more generators. The paradoxes of naive set theory can be explained in terms...
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theoretical computer science, and specifically proof theory and computational complexity theory, proof complexity is the field aiming to understand and...
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Proof-theoretic semantics is a branch of proof theory and an approach to the semantics of logic that attempts to locate the meaning of propositions and...
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Analytic (section Proof theory)
set, the continuous image of a Polish space Analytic proof, in structural proof theory, a proof whose structure is simple in a special way Analytic tableau...
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Outline of logic (section Proof theory)
theory Illuminationist philosophy Logical atomism Logical holism Logicism Modal fictionalism Nominalism Polylogism Pragmatism Preintuitionism Proof theory...
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Correctness (computer science) (redirect from Proof of correctness)
assert something currently not known in number theory. A proof would have to be a mathematical proof, assuming both the algorithm and specification are...
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its original proof Mathematical induction and a proof Proof that 0.999... equals 1 Proof that 22/7 exceeds π Proof that e is irrational Proof that π is irrational...
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David Hilbert (section Number theory)
the foundations of mathematics (particularly proof theory). He adopted and defended Georg Cantor's set theory and transfinite numbers. In 1900, he presented...
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