Wir müssen wissen – wir werden wissen

Wir müssen wissen – wir werden wissen 100 years ago, the world of mathematics experienced a foundational crisis: the identification of several paradoxes revealed cracks in the pillars supporting all areas of math. The most famous of which is Russel’s paradox, which points to the contradictory “set of all sets that do not contain themselves”, thereby showing the inconsistency of naive set theory. This had spurred mathematicians to search for a rigorous foundation for math without contradictions.