Logic & Philosophy of Science

Course Description



Course:  LPS 105C/Phil 105C; LPS 205C/Phil 205C
Name:  Undecidability and Incompleteness
Description:  Introduction to the formal theory of effective processes, including recursive functions, Turing machines, Church's thesis, and proofs of Göedel's incompleteness theorem for arithmetic, and Church's undecidability theorem for first-order logic. Prerequisite: 105B or consent of instructor. LPS 105C and Mathematics 152 cannot both be taken for credit.