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"I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy."
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"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
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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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"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
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"I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."
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"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
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"The flowering of geometry."
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"The square root of I is I."
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"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
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"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
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"I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about."
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"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received."
First
"I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe."
Ideas
"I think Veblen had an interest in logic."
Interest
"I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy."
Education
"Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s."
Logic
"It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church."
Work
"I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton."
Post
"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."
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
"In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine."
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