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One of the famous mathematician David Hilbert quotes:

“Wir müssen wissen. Wir werden wissen."

(We must know. We will know.)

What is the deep meaning of this quotes acording to Sir David Hilbert logics ?

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1 Answer

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That was in Hilbert's radio speech. He wanted to axiomatize the whole mathematics, and believed that every axiomatic system is decidable. So, in particular, every well formulated math problem has a solution. It was before G$\ddot{o}$del.

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