In this book, Paulo Guilherme Santos studies diagonalization in formal mathematics from logical aspects to everyday mathematics. He starts with a study of the diagonalization lemma and its relation to the strong diagonalization lemma. After that, Yablo’s paradox is examined, and a self-referential interpretation is given. From that, a general structure of diagonalization with paradoxes is presented. Finally, the author studies a general theory of diagonalization with the help of examples from mathematics.
Table of Content
Diagonalization in Mathematics.- Diagonalization Lemma.- Fixed Point Theorems.- Paradoxes: Liar, Yablo’s Paradox, Curry’s Paradox.
About the author
Paulo Guilherme Santos is currently a Ph D student at FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal and at University of Tübingen, Germany. His field of work is logic, e.g. formal arithmetic, provability logic, provability predicates, and paradoxes.
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