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Mathematical Problems

1900 · by David Hilbert

Lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris; the printed version sets out 23 open problems (the talk itself presented ten), among them the continuum hypothesis and the consistency of the axioms of arithmetic, in the conviction that in mathematics there is no “ignorabimus”.

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