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- 100 years ago, the world of mathematics experienced a foundational crisis: the identification of several paradoxes revealed cracks in the pillars supporting all areas of math.
- The most famous of which is Russel’s paradox, which points to the contradictory “set of all sets that do not contain themselves”, thereby showing the inconsistency of naive set theory.
- This had spurred mathematicians to search for a rigorous foundation for math without contradictions.
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- 100 years ago, the world of mathematics experienced a foundational crisis: the identification of several paradoxes revealed cracks in the pillars supporting all areas of math.
- The most famous of which is Russel’s paradox, which points to the contradictory “set of all sets that do not contain themselves”, thereby showing the inconsistency of naive set theory.
- This had spurred mathematicians to search for a rigorous foundation for math without contradictions.
Sources: Remy