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What are the most attractive Turing undecidable problems in mathematics?

What are the most attractive Turing undecidable problems in mathematics? There are thousands of examples, so please post here only the most attractive, best examples. Some examples already appear on ...
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What are some interesting applications/corollaries of Kleene's Recursion theorem?

Lately I became very interested in the theory of computability and a fundamental early result you learn is the Recursion Theorem also known as the Fixed point theorem. At first sight you can see it's ...
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Non-constructive proofs of decidability?

Are there examples of sets of natural numbers that are proven to be decidable but by non-constructive proofs only?
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Relation between properties of functions/sets and Grzegorczyk's hierarchy

I know for example that the first level of the Grzegorczyk hierarchy contains the functions which enumerate the c.e sets and that it has an interesting relation to the provably total functions in ...
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