AuthorJonas Reitz

City Tech Math Seminar 4/19: Gödel’s Incompleteness – the most abused theorem in modern mathematics

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New York City College of Technology Mathematics SeminarThursday, April 11, 2019, 12:45pm-2pm, Room N700 “It is sometimes claimed to prove the existence of God or of free will, the necessary incompleteness of the Bible or of the U.S. Constitution, or the impossibility of genuine knowledge in mathematics—just to mention a few of the many alleged applications”– Panu Raatikainen, Notices of the...

Publications

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Cohen forcing and inner models, (2020). Math. Log. Quart., 66: 65-72. doi:10.1002/malq.201800062, arXiv Inner mantles and iterated HOD, with Kameryn J. Williams, (2019), . Math. Log. Quart., 65: 498-510. doi:10.1002/malq.201800071.  arXiv Inner-model reflection principles, with Neil Barton, Andres Caicedo, Gunter Fuchs, Joel David Hamkins and Ralf Schindler, Stud. Logica (2019). ; pdf, arXiv...

Welcome

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Photo of Jonas Reitz with multiple reflections

My name is Jonas Reitz, and I am a Professor in the Mathematics Department at City Tech. My research interests are in mathematical logic, especially set theory. I enjoy pondering questions like “do sets really exist?” and “what does it mean to be a real number?” and “if sets do exist, is there a universe of sets?” I have an unhealthy fascination with the method...

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