the.com/principia mathematica

762 pages to prove 1+1=2, and math never fully recovered.

means a three-volume attempt by whitehead and russell to derive all of mathematics from pure logic, symbol by symbol.

from published 1910-1913 by bertrand russell and alfred north whitehead, born from russell's discovery of a paradox in set theory that threatened to unravel mathematics itself, so they tried to rebuild it on unshakeable logical foundations.

for instance

russells paradoxthe set-of-all-sets problem that started this whole project in 1901

godels incompleteness theorems1931 proof showing no system like this can be both complete and consistent

principia's notationsymbolic logic style later shaped computer science and formal proofs

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