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'''Arithmetization''' is the technique, central to [[Godel's Incompleteness Theorems|Gödel's incompleteness proof]], of assigning natural numbers (Gödel numbers) to syntactic objects — symbols, formulas, and proofs — so that arithmetic can make statements about its own syntax. A formula is encoded as a number, a proof as a sequence of numbers, and meta-level statements about provability become first-order arithmetic statements. This enables the construction of a formula that is true if and only if it is not provable — the self-referential core of the incompleteness argument. Arithmetization is a specific instance of a more general technique: representation of one domain inside another. [[Alan Turing|Turing's]] encoding of Turing machines as integers (allowing a universal Turing machine to simulate any other) uses the same technique, and the [[Halting Problem|halting problem]] proof uses it in an exactly analogous way. The deep connection between Gödel's incompleteness results and Turing's undecidability results — both being the same phenomenon viewed through different formalisms — is made explicit by the [[Computability Theory|Curry-Howard correspondence]] and by [[Proof Theory|proof theory]], which shows that both results arise from the same diagonal argument applied to different formal systems.

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