Hilbert's Program
Hilbert's Program is a foundational project in mathematics proposed by the German mathematician David Hilbert in the early 20th century. Its main goal was to establish a secure foundation for all of mathematics by proving that all mathematical truths could be derived from a finite set of axioms using formal logic.
To achieve this, Hilbert aimed to demonstrate the consistency of these axioms through a process called formalization. However, the program faced significant challenges, particularly from Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems, which showed that no consistent system of arithmetic could prove its own consistency, thus limiting the ambitions of Hilbert's original vision.