# David Hilbert
**Domain:** Mathematics / Logic
**Doc Type:** Person
**Maturity:** Developed
**Related:** [[Hilbert Program]], [[Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems]], [[Mathematical Foundations]], [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]]
## Definition
David Hilbert was a mathematician whose foundational program sought formalization and finitary consistency proofs for mathematics.
## Bauhaus Architects Context
Gödel's results imposed decisive limits on the program's general ambitions while leaving formal proof theory as a productive field.
## Backlinks
- [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]]
- [[articles/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]]