[FOM] decidability of intuitionistic propositional logic

[Richard Zach]

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 09:06 -0500, Neil Tennant wrote:
> Question for fom-ers:
> 
> Who was the first person to state and/or prove that theoremhood in
> intuitionistic propositional logic is decidable?

Gerhard Gentzen, Untersuchungen über das logische Schließen II,
Mathematische Zeitschrift 39 (1934): 405-431.

Section IV, Paragraph 1.2 is entitled "Solution of the decision problem
for intuitionistic propositional logic"


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