I: Foundational Problems
1: Deciding the undecidable: Wrestling with Hilbert's Problems
2: Infinity in mathematics: Is Cantor necessary?
II: Foundational Ways
3: The logic of mathematical discovery vs. the logical structure of mathematics
4: Foundational Ways
5: Working Foundations
III: Godel
6: Godel's life and work
7: Kurt Godel: conviction and caution
8: Introductory note to Godel's 1933 lecture
IV: Proof Theory
9: What does logic have to tell us about mathematical proofs?
10: What rests on what? The proof-theoretic analysis of mathematics
11: Godel's Dialectica interpretation and its two-way stretch
V: Countably Reducible Mathematics
12: Infinity in mathematics: Is Cantor necessary? (Conclusion)
13: Weyl vindicated: Das Kontinuum 70 years later
14: Why a little bit goes a long way: Logical Foundations of scientifically applicable mathematics

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