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Throughout the course of mathematical history, generalizations of previously understood concepts and structures have led to the fruitful development of the hierarchy of number systems, non-euclidean geometry, and many other epochal phases…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Samuel Reid

The overarching theme of the following pages is that mathematical logic -- centered around the incompleteness theorems -- is first and foremost an investigation of $\textit{computation}$, not arithmetic. Guided by this intuition we will…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Sebastian Oberhoff

Gentzen's 1936 proof of the consistency of Peano Arithmetic was a significant result in the foundations of mathematics. We provide here a modified version of the proof, based on G\"{o}del's reformulation, and including additional details…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Aaron Bryce , Rajeev Gore'

Recently, Artemov [4] offered the notion of constructive consistency for Peano Arithmetic and generalized it to constructive truth and falsity in the spirit of Brouwer-Heyting-Kolmogorov semantics and its formalization, the Logic of Proofs.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Hirohiko Kushida

Separation logic is successful for software verification of heap-manipulating programs. Numbers are necessary to be added to separation logic for verification of practical software where numbers are important. However, properties of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Sohei Ito , Makoto Tatsuta

G\"odel's second incompleteness theorem is standardly understood as showing that no sufficiently strong, consistent theory of arithmetic can prove its own consistency, a result typically interpreted against a model-theoretic background in…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Alexander V. Gheorghiu

This is an exposition of facts about Arithmetic with an approach via mathematical logic. In Section 1 we present Peano Arithmetic, PA, and the complete theory of $\mathbb{N}$, and we show that $\mathbb{N}$ is a prime model of the theory of…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2019-01-15 Joel Torres Del valle

We give a proof of the inconsistency of PM arithmetic, classical set theory and related systems, incidentally exposing an error in Goedel's own proof of Goedel's Theorems. The inconsistency proof, that formulae of the form R and ~R occur as…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dr. S. Fennell

There is a problem with the foundations of classical mathematics, and potentially even with the foundations of computer science, that mathematicians have by-and-large ignored. This essay is a call for practicing mathematicians who have been…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Jonathan Lenchner

The goal of this paper is twofold. First, we present a unified way of formulating numerical integration problems from both approximation theory and discrepancy theory. Second, we show how techniques, developed in approximation theory, work…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-21 V. N. Temlyakov

This paper presents mathematics as a general science of computation in a way different from the tradition. It is based on the radical philosophical standpoint according to which the content, meaning and justification of experience lies in…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aarno Hohti

The main purpose of this survey is to introduce an inexperienced reader to additive prime number theory and some related branches of analytic number theory. We state the main problems in the field, sketch their history and the basic…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-08-23 A. V. Kumchev , D. I. Tolev

The main purpose of this work is to ascertain when arithmetic operations with periodic functions whose domains may not coincide with the whole real line preserve periodicity.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-10 A. R. Mirotin , E. A. Mirotin

A method is presented for using the consistent part of inconsistent axiomatic systems.

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2009-02-09 Elemer E Rosinger

The present article introduces ptarithmetic (short for "polynomial time arithmetic") -- a formal number theory similar to the well known Peano arithmetic, but based on the recently born computability logic (see…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-12-16 Giorgi Japaridze

This paper argues that, insofar as we doubt the bivalence of the Continuum Hypothesis or the truth of the Axiom of Choice, we should also doubt the consistency of third-order arithmetic, both the classical and intuitionistic versions.…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2022-07-07 Paul Blain Levy

Pairwise comparisons are an important tool of modern (multiple criteria) decision making. Since human judgments are often inconsistent, many studies focused on the ways how to express and measure this inconsistency, and several…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Jiri Mazurek

An error analysis for some Newton-Cotes quadrature formulae is presented. Peano-like error bounds are obtained. They are generally, but not always, better than the usual Peano bounds.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Nenad Ujevic

This book provides a compact, derivation-oriented introduction to the mathematical foundations of modern generative artificial intelligence. Rather than surveying every recent architecture or implementation detail, it develops a coherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Tianhua Chen

In introductory books about natural numbers, a common kind of assertion - often left as exercise to the reader - is that certain forms of induction on $\mathbb{N}$ (regular/ordinary, complete/strong) are equivalent one to each other and to…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-11-23 João Alves Silva Júnior