Re: article on schools of foundations of mathematics

From: G. A. Edgar (edgar_at_math.ohio-state.edu.invalid)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:49:16 -0500

In article <354r1eF4jjhvvU1@news.dfncis.de>, Mitch Harris
<harrisq@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:

> I am at a loss. A couple of years ago I read an article (online) that
> described a number of "schools" of foundations of mathematics. But now
> that I am curious to read it again, I can't find it.
> The article started by briefly discussing a number of classical
> schools (platonism, logicism, formalism, intuitionism, maybe more),
> then jumping into deeper descriptions of a large handful more. The
> upshot of the article (as much as I remember) was that all of these
> schools had difficulties (and it discussed them).
>
> Does this ring a bell? I can't remember the author's name (though I do
> remember that he was not unknown). I don't think it was very recent
> (past ten years) but it was not too far in the past (beyond 40 years
> ago). I couldn't get google or mathscinet to help me find it.
>
> Any ideas?

It reminds me not of an article, but a book;
Davis & Hersh, THE MATHEMATICAL EXPERIENCE 

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G. A. Edgar                               http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~edgar/

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