Date: October 29, 2014

Place: Online Logic Seminar, Moscow University
      
Speaker: Stephen G. Simpson, Pennsylvania State University
         http://www.math.psu.edu/simpson/

Title: Gauging the complexity of mathematical theorems

Abstract:

  Mathematical logic provides several frameworks for analyzing the
  "complexity" or "nonconstructivity" of a given mathematical theorem.
  Among these frameworks are: computable analysis, degrees of
  unsolvability, reverse mathematics, and algorithmic randomness.
  Each of these frameworks provides a different kind of information.
  In this talk I shall analyze a few nonconstructive mathematical
  theorems from each of these points of view.