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Gödel's incompleteness theorems have given mathematicians an identity crisis for nearly a century now.

I think it leads to a healthier view of mathematics in the end. Imo, it's healthy to realize that math is just an attempt at abstracting observed patterns in a way that can be extended and studied and not some fundamental principle of the universe itself



> Gödel's incompleteness theorems have given mathematicians an identity crisis for nearly a century now.

I don't think this is at all true.




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