It's also deep, it goes all the way to the bottom.

> The world of mathematics is both broad and deep, and we need birds and frogs working together to explore it. -- Freeman Dyson

contraposit1 day ago | | | parent | | on: 47746907
Weird Things Happen When Math Gets Too Expressive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVwQsvof7Hw

Peano arithmetic is sufficiently expressive enough to be equivalent to any possible future theory of mathematics.

gottheUIblues1 day ago | | | parent | | on: 47747588
Err? Peano Arithmetic is provably consistent in ZFC, but it is not in itself (if PA is consistent). Therefore if PA is consistent it is not equivalent to ZFC (regardless of whether ZFC is consistent or not)
contraposit1 day ago | | | parent | | on: 47750045
I am referring to this slide : https://youtu.be/EVwQsvof7Hw?t=1646
lioeters1 day ago | | | parent | | on: 47747588
Even before I started the video, I had a feeling it was going to lead to a kind of "introspective" mathematics that can reason about its own reasoning. I was not disappointed, thank you.

Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone - https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0340