This chapter gives the most important landmarks of mathematical logic— the incompleteness theorems of Gödel.We still have to do some work, which we do in the first section. As a side output, in Section 3, we initiate the study of recursion theory.
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(2008). Incompleteness Theorems and Recursion Theory. In: A Course on Mathematical Logic. Universitext. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76277-7_7
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