# David Hilbert - Wondered if there was a universal algorithmic process to decide whether any mathematical proposition was true - Then suggested that there were no unsolvable problems # Incompleteness Theorem ## Kurt Godel You might be able to prove every conceivable statement about numbers within a system by going outside the system in order to come up with new rules and axioms, but by doing so you'll only create a larger system with its own unprovable statements # Turing Machine - Model of computation - Resolves whether or not mathematics contained problems were incomputable - No algorithmic solution ### Church-Turing Thesis Any algorithm capable of being devised can be run on a Turing machine