To: Alamo-Girl
Id love to hear any arguments for why mathematics should not be given a higher seat in our body of knowledge than science!I'm preparing the following label to be placed on all high school math textbooks. Kids need to be taught the controversy.
New sticker for math textbooks:
Warning: this axiomatic system includes propositions whose truth is undecidable within that system and its consistency is, hence, not provable within that system |
72 posted on
03/17/2005 11:46:20 AM PST by
js1138
To: js1138
LOLOLOL! That would make a precious sticker! Of course, it would be nice to attribute it to Godel. Who knows, maybe some of the students would want to know more.
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