Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Three depressing conjectures

Assume that there is a reasonable axiomatization characterizing "mathematically interesting." Consider three conjectures: As the length of a statement goes to infinity, almost all mathematically interesting true statements about Diophantine equations are unprovable in Peano Arithmetic. As the length of a statement goes to infinity, almost all mathematically interesting true statements formulated in Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory (ZF) are unprovable in ZF. The Riemann Hypothesis and the P does not equal NP problem are examples of true statements unprovable in ZF.

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