Truth vs. provability – philosophical and historical remarks
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https://doi.org/10.12775/LLP.2002.006Abstract
Since Plato, Aristotle and Euclid the axiomatic method was considered as the best method to justify and to organize mathematical knowledge. The first mature and most representative example of its usage in mathematics were Elements of Euclid. They established a pattern of a scientific theory and in particular a paradigm in mathematics.References
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