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"As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know."
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"I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy."
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"In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine."
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"Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D."
Church
"As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know."
Mathematicians
"I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic."
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"It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church."
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"I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief."
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"I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe."
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"For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal."
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"And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished."
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"Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years."
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"Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?"
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"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
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"Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects."
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"Mathematicians are born, not made."
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"As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know."
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"Mathematics is written for mathematicians."
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"All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians."
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"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders."
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"The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure."
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