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  2. Continuum hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Gödel believed that CH is false, and that his proof that CH is consistent with ZFC only shows that the Zermelo–Fraenkel axioms do not adequately characterize the universe of sets. Gödel was a Platonist and therefore had no problems with asserting the truth and falsehood of statements independent of their provability.

  3. Bayesian probability - Wikipedia

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    Bayesian probability (/ ˈ b eɪ z i ə n / BAY-zee-ən or / ˈ b eɪ ʒ ən / BAY-zhən) [1] is an interpretation of the concept of probability, in which, instead of frequency or propensity of some phenomenon, probability is interpreted as reasonable expectation [2] representing a state of knowledge [3] or as quantification of a personal belief.

  4. Why Beauty Is Truth - Wikipedia

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    Chapter 9: The Drunken Vandal; William Rowan Hamilton extended the field of complex numbers to the quaternions. Chapter 10: The Would-Be Soldier and the Weakly Bookworm; Marius Sophus Lie formalized Lie groups and Lie algebras. Wilhelm Killing classified all simple Lie algebras (in what Ian Stewart calls the "greatest mathematical paper of all ...

  5. Foundations of mathematics - Wikipedia

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    In summary, the foundational crisis is essentially resolved, and this opens new philosophical problems. In particular, it cannot be proved that the new foundation (ZFC) is not self-contradictory. It is a general consensus that, if this would happen, the problem could be solved by a mild modification of ZFC.

  6. Philosophy of mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Mathematics is used in most sciences for modeling phenomena, which then allows predictions to be made from experimental laws. [10] The independence of mathematical truth from any experimentation implies that the accuracy of such predictions depends only on the adequacy of the model. [11]

  7. A Mathematician's Apology - Wikipedia

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    A Mathematician's Apology 1st edition Author G. H. Hardy Subjects Philosophy of mathematics, mathematical beauty Publisher Cambridge University Press Publication date 1940 OCLC 488849413 A Mathematician's Apology is a 1940 essay by British mathematician G. H. Hardy which defends the pursuit of mathematics for its own sake. Central to Hardy's "apology" – in the sense of a formal justification ...

  8. Three-valued logic - Wikipedia

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    Łukasiewicz initially developed three-valued logic for the problem of future contingents to represent the truth value of statements about the undetermined future. [9] [10] [11] Bruno de Finetti used a third value to represent when "a given individual does not know the [correct] response, at least at a given moment."

  9. All India Secondary School Examination - Wikipedia

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    All India Secondary School Examination, commonly known as the class 10th board exam, is a centralized public examination that students in schools affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education, primarily in India but also in other Indian-patterned schools affiliated to the CBSE across the world, taken at the end of class 10.