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Noah Schoem : Large Numbers: A Survey

Posted by Noah Schoem , part of the Louise Hay Logic Seminar.

At
April 27, 2017, 4 p.m.
In
SEO 427
Abstract
Although mostly an idle curiosity, the quest to name large natural numbers gives rise to, and requires substantial use of, tools from mathematical logic. We begin with elementary attempts and conclude with state-of-the-art techniques that go beyond $ZFC$.