Blurred cover

Recursive Number Theory: A Development of Recursive Arithmetic in a Logic-Free Equation Calculus

Reuben Louis Goodstein

PublishedAug 15, 1957
LanguageEnglish

The discovery of the reflexive paradox, that the class of all classes which are not numbers of themselves is a self-contradictory concept, gave rise to three new developments in mathematics.

This book explains them.