In this book, Paulo Guilherme Santos studies diagonalization in formal mathematics from logical aspects to everyday mathematics. He starts with a study of the diagonalization lemma and its relation to the strong diagonalization lemma. After that, Yablos paradox is examined, and a self-referential interpretation is given. From that, a general structure of diagonalization with paradoxes is presented. Finally, the author studies a general theory of diagonalization with the help of examples from mathematics.
Diagonalization in Mathematics.- Diagonalization Lemma.- Fixed Point
Theorems.- Paradoxes: Liar, Yablos Paradox, Currys Paradox.
Paulo Guilherme Santos is currently a PhD student at FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal and at University of Tubingen, Germany. His field of work is logic, e.g. formal arithmetic, provability logic, provability predicates, and paradoxes.