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Not sure if this question even makes sense, or if it sounds hopelessly naive to someone in the know, my maths education ended in undergrad -

can this type of push towards formalizing mathematical proofs be seen as a sort of continuation of Hilbert's program? If no, what's the difference? If yes, how are the fatal issues in that program avoided?



It is essentially “the most one can do with Hilbert’s Programme”.

Actually Hilbert’s Programme was shattered when his great hope (the proof of the consistency and completeness of Mathematics FINITISTICALLY) was proved impossible (actually inconsistent).

But from the point of view of mechanizing Maths, it is more or less equivalent.


Yeah Hilbert’s Program wasn't actually set back by the incompleteness theorems in the first place, it was all FUD.


Not sure what you mean by that: after Gödel, Hilbert essentially became hopeless.


Hilbert misunderstood his own program :D




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