Re: article on schools of foundations of mathematics
From: Herman Jurjus (h.jurjus_at_hetnet.nl)
Date: 02/03/05
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Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:00:37 +0100
Mitch Harris 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?
>
Did you find out already what that article was?
-- Cheers, Herman Jurjus
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