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First English translation of revolutionary paper (1931) that established that even in elementary parts of arithmetic, there are propositions which cannot be proved or disproved within the system. It is thus uncertain that the basic axioms of arithmetic will not give rise to contradictions. Introduction by R. B. Braithwaite.Godel, Kurt is the author of 'On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems', published 1992 under ISBN 9780486669809 and ISBN 0486669807.
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