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Yes. Because of Gödel, von Neumann and others stopped trying to build machines that can prove anything.

Of course, following the critiques and further revisions of Zermelo’s set theory by Fraenkel, Skolem, Hilbert and von Neumann, a young mathematician by the name of Kurt Gödel in 1930 published a paper which would effectively end von Neumann’s efforts in formalist set theory, and indeed Hilbert’s formalist program altogether, his theorem of incompleteness. von Neumann happened to be in the audience when Gödel first presented it [1]

[1] https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-unparalleled-genius-...




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