Journey into Maths Country - Season 2 Episode 10 Entscheidungsproblem: The End of Mathematics?
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Imagine a world where a machine could calculate true and false...
Failing that, Church, Herbrand, Gödel and Turing each tried in their own way to determine whether an algorithm could decide whether or not a mathematical assertion could be proved. The Entscheidungsproblem, the decision problem that rocked maths and, in the process, laid the foundations of computer science.