Hilbert’s Entscheidungsproblem and the dream of deciding everything
David Hilbert asked whether a finite procedure can decide any mathematical statement; the negative answer opened computability theory.
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Leibniz and the dream of the calculus ratiocinator
In the 17th–18th centuries, Leibniz imagined a universal language and a calculus of reasoning that anticipate symbolic AI.
Aristotle and syllogistic logic: deep roots of AI
Aristotle’s 4th-century BCE syllogistic logic supplied formal inference rules that later inspired automated reasoning.