What is the topic of Gödel’s doctoral dissertation?
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Kurt Gödel's doctoral dissertation was on the foundations of mathematics. He proved that any consistent system of axioms whose theorems can be listed by an "effective procedure" (essentially, a computer program) is either incomplete or inconsistent. This result has profound implications for the foundations of mathematics, as it shows that there are limits to what mathematics can prove.
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