Limits of Mathematics
Limits of Mathematics Formal, Computational, Representational, and Empirical Boundaries Part I — What Does “A Limit of Mathematics” Mean? Limits of Mathematics From Formal Boundaries to Frontiers of Mathematical Reconstruction Preface — What Would It Mean for Mathematics to Have a Limit? 0.1 Mathematics is not identical to formal logic 0.2 Impossibility, ignorance, intractability, nonconstruction, and representation failure 0.3 failure ≠ impossibility 0.4 local closure ≠ global closure 0.5 existence ≠ construction 0.6 representation ≠ source 0.7 Limits as moving frontiers rather than terminal walls 0.8 The central question: does mathematics possess global limits, or only carrier-relative frontiers? Part I — The Object Whose Limits Are Being Tested 1. What Is Mathematics? 1.1 Mathematics as formal system 1.2 Mathematics as construction 1.3 Mathematics as structural discovery 1.4 Mathematics as representation 1.5 Mathematics as transformation between representations 1.6 Mathematics as pr...