{"id":185,"date":"2026-04-15T15:01:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/?p=185"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:02:45","slug":"deep-misunderstanding-of-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/2026\/04\/15\/deep-misunderstanding-of-mathematics\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep misunderstanding of mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is more and more common in media, even in science-focused media:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleHeader__Heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2522297-the-man-who-ruined-mathematics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The man who ruined mathematics<\/a>, by Jacob Aron. The paper is built on false premises. Kurt G\u00f6del didn&#8217;t ruin mathematics. And G\u00f6del\u2019s incompleteness theorem is mispresented. I know that, I had <strong>taught<\/strong> an undergraduate lecture course with a full proof of this remarkable result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is more and more common in media, even in science-focused media: The man who ruined mathematics, by Jacob Aron. The paper is built on false premises. Kurt G\u00f6del didn&#8217;t ruin mathematics. And G\u00f6del\u2019s incompleteness theorem is mispresented. I know that, I had taught an undergraduate lecture course with a full proof of this remarkable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borovik.net\/selecta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}