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# Unprovability in Mathematics: A First Course on Ordinal Analysis

@inproceedings{Freund2021UnprovabilityIM,
title={Unprovability in Mathematics: A First Course on Ordinal Analysis},
author={Anton Freund},
year={2021}
}
These are the lecture notes of an introductory course on ordinal analysis. Our selection of topics is guided by the aim to give a complete and direct proof of a mathematical independence result: Kruskal’s theorem for binary trees is unprovable in conservative extensions of Peano arithmetic (note that much stronger results of this type are due to Harvey Friedman). Concerning prerequisites, we assume a solid introduction to mathematical logic but no specialized knowledge of proof theory. The… Expand

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