eli5: What is Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem in math and computer science?

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What are the problems and theorems that are derived from it?

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Math tries to prove things are true or false. Like 1+1 =2 is true and 1+1 = 3 is false.

People thought math was ‘complete’, meaning you would always be able to prove if something is true or false, but Godel discovered that there are actually sums that we KNOW are true, but we can’t prove it, and therefore math is ‘incomplete’.

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