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We summarize in an intuitive vein a few recent results by the authors on the incompleteness of elementary real analysis and its consequences to the axiomatized sciences, from chaos theory to the dynamics of populations.
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Da Costa, N.C.A., Doria, F.A. (2003). On Some Recent Undecidability and Incompleteness Results in the Axiomatized Sciences. In: Fløistad, G. (eds) Philosophy of Latin America. Contemporary philosophy, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3651-0_13
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