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There's a relationship between the incompleteness theorems and the halting problem in that no turing machine can decide whether an arbitrary statement in a logi
by marcelluspye 10y ago
There's a relationship between the incompleteness theorems and the halting problem in that no turing machine can decide whether an arbitrary statement in a logical system where the incompleteness theorems apply is derivable or not. Equivalently, there's no turing machine with input 'statement in the logical system' and outputs a proof or a "unprovable".
However, once you already have a proof, checking is much easier (at the formal level). Modern mathematical proofs, however, are not generally written in a fashion in any way similar to how the formal system operates, so applying this in practice is non-trivial.
- indolering 10y agoThis problem actually goes back to Descarte's proofs-of-god: in order to solve some problems Descarte needed infinite computational power. Guess who has infinite computational power?
- Retra 10y agoI suppose you could assert that anyone you like has infinite computational power.