Individual km#logicism pioneered by philosopher-logicians such as Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell: the idea was that mathematical theories were logical tautologies, and the programme was to show this by means to a reduction of mathematics to logic. The various attempts to carry this out met with a series of failures, from the crippling of Frege's project in his Grundgesetze by Russell's Paradox, to the defeat of Hilbert's Program by Gödel's incompleteness theorems; however, every rigorously defined mathematical theory can be exactly captured by a first-order logical theory; Frege's proof calculus is enough to describe the whole of mathematics, though not equivalent to it
>part of: application_of_techniques_of_formal_logic_to_mathematics
>part of: mathematical_logic__symbolic_logic__metamathematics__metamathematic
>part of: formal_logic
>part of: logic.philosophy the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference
>part of: philosophy the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics
>part of: abstract_algebra
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