adjective
- relating to or involving metamathematics, the study of mathematical systems and their properties from outside those systems
Usage: technical; logic and mathematics
Examples
- The professor discussed metamathematical questions about the consistency of arithmetic.
- Gödel’s incompleteness theorems are famous metamathematical results.
- Students in advanced logic courses study metamathematical proofs.
- The metamathematical approach examines mathematics as a formal system.
- Researchers use metamathematical methods to analyze mathematical theories.
- The book explores metamathematical concepts like completeness and decidability.