Quanta Magazine(@QuantaMagazine):Kurt Gödel established that for any reasonable set of mathematical axioms, it’s impossible to prove that they won’t eventually lead to contradictions. This meant that mathematicians could never again be certain that their rules were self-consistent. https://t.co/rOzVXJUdO9

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Kurt Gödel established that for any reasonable set of mathematical axioms, it’s impossible to prove that they won’t eventually lead to contradictions. This meant that mathematicians could never again be certain that their rules were self-consistent.