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"I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy."
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"I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy."
Mathematics
"In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine."
Family
"It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church."
Work
"Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s."
Logic
"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received."
First
"I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy."
Education
"I think Veblen had an interest in logic."
Interest
"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 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."
Belief
"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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"The flowering of geometry."
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"You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality."
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"Few rounds.... I am damn good mathematician!2 999 999 999 999 999 999 + 11 999 999 999 999 999 999 = 14 999 999 999 999 999 998."
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"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
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"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
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"The square root of I is I."
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"I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account."
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"Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions."
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"No more Lastrygonians. Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep."
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"I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy."
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