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Math Research Curses

2015

A witch stirs a cauldron and curses a mathematician's research: may their theorem be undecidable.

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[Title] "Math Research Curses"

Witch (stirring a cauldron): "Eye of moth and tongue of rhino-bull… may the theorem you seek be undecidable."

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Logic & Proof › UndecidabilityLogic & Proof › Gödel's Incompleteness TheoremsLogic & Proof › Proofs & TheoremsMath Culture › Research
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