Model theory seminarFriday, March 21, 201412:30 pmGC 6417
The consistency of Peano Arithmetic
Henry Towsner
University of Pennsylvania
In 1936, only a few years after the incompleteness theorems were proved, Gentzen proved the consistency of Peano arithmetic by using transfinite induction up to the ordinal epsilon_0. I will give a short proof of the result, based on on the simplification introduced by Schutte, and discuss some of the consequences.
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