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Chapter 12: The Principle of Computational Equivalence
Section 9: Implications for Mathematics and Its Foundations


*History [of concept of mathematics]

*[History of] models of mathematics

*Axiom systems

*Basic logic [and axioms]

*Predicate logic

*[Axioms for] arithmetic

*Algebraic axioms

*Groups [and axioms]

*Semigroups [and axioms]

*Fields [and axioms]

*Rings [and axioms]

*Other algebraic systems

*Real algebra [and axioms]

*[Axioms for] geometry

*Category theory

*Set theory [and axioms]

*General topology [and axioms]

*[Axioms for] real analysis

*Axiom systems for programs

*Implementation [of proof example]

*Proof structures

*Substitution strategies [in proofs]

*One-way transformations [as axioms]

*Axiom schemas

*Reducing axiom [system] details

*[Mathematical] proofs in practice

*Properties [of example multiway systems]

*Nand tautologies

*[Methods for] proof searching

*Automated theorem proving

*Proofs in Mathematica

*Truth and falsity [in formal systems]

*Gödel's Theorem

*Properties [of example multiway systems]

*Essential incompleteness [in axiom systems]

*[Universality of] predicate logic

*[Universality of] algebraic axioms

*[Universality of] set theory

*Universal Diophantine equation

*Hilbert's Tenth Problem

*Polynomial value sets

*Statements in Peano arithmetic

*Transfinite numbers

*Growth rates [of functions]

*[Examples of] unprovable statements

*Encodings of arithmetic [by different operations]

*[The concept of] infinity

*Diophantine equations

*Properties [of Diophantine equations]

*Large solutions [to Diophantine equations]

*Nearby powers [and integer equations]

*Unsolved problems [in number theory]

*Fermat's Last Theorem

*More powerful axioms [for mathematics]

*Higher-order logics

*Truth and incompleteness

*Generalization in mathematics

*Cellular automaton axioms

*[Theorems about] practical programs

*Rules [for multiway systems examples]

*Consistency [in axiom systems]

*Properties [of example multiway systems]

*Non-standard arithmetic

*[Unprovable statements in] reduced arithmetic

*Generators and relations [and axiom systems]

*Comparison to multiway systems

*Operator systems

*[History of] truth tables

*Proofs of axiom systems

*Junctional calculus

*Equivalential calculus

*Implicational calculus

*Operators on sets

*Implementation [of operators from axioms]

*Properties [of operators from axioms]

*Algebraic systems [and operator systems]

*Symbolic systems [and operator systems]

*Groups and semigroups [and operator systems]

*Forcing of operators [by axiom systems]

*Model theory

*Pure equational logic

*Multiway systems [and operator systems]

*Logic in languages

*Properties [of logical primitives]

*Notations [for logical primitives]

*Universal logical functions

*Searching for logic [axioms]

*Two-operator logic [axioms]

*History [of logic axioms]

*Theorem distributions [in standard mathematics]

*Multivalued logic

*Proof lengths in logic

*Nand theorems

*Finite axiomatizability

*Empirical metamathematics

*Speedups in other systems

*Character of mathematics

*Invention versus discovery in mathematics

*Ordering of [mathematical] constructs

*Mathematics and the brain

*Frameworks [in mathematics]



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