S(zp, zp)
Subtitle: post-structural readings of Gödel's proof
By: Roy Wagner
Series: Open access publications
Publisher: Polimetrica
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Milano
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9788876991578
Subjects: Mathematics; Gödel's theorem; Philosophy; Symbolic and mathematical Logic; Semiotics
Description: S(zp,zp) performs an innovative analysis of one of modern logic's most celebrated cornerstones: the proof of Gödel's first incompleteness theorem. The book applies the semiotic theories of French post- structuralists such as Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze to shed new light on a fundamental question: how do mathematical signs produce meaning and make sense?  S(zp,zp) analyses the text of the proof of Gödel's result, and shows that mathematical language, like other forms of language, enjoys the full complexity of language as a process, with its embodied genesis, constitutive paradoxical forces and unbounded shifts of meaning. These effects do not infringe on the logico-mathematical validity of Gödel's proof. Rather, they belong to a mathematical unconscious that enables the successful function of mathematical texts for a variety of different readers. S(zp,zp) breaks new ground by synthesising mathematical logic and post-structural semiotics into a new form of philosophical fabric, and offers an original way of bridging the gap between the "two cultures".
Notes: Originally presented as the author's dissertation--Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, 2007.

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