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"I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy."
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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."
"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."
"I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh."
"Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's."
"Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness."
"We are servants rather than masters in mathematics."
"The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated."
"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
"He calculated the number of bricks in the wall, first in twos and then in tens and finally in sixteens. The numbers formed up and marched past his brain in terrified obedience. Division and multiplication were discovered. Algebra was invented and provided an interesting diversion for a minute or two. And then he felt the fog of numbers drift away, and looked up and saw the sparkling, distant mountains of calculus."
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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."
"I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy."
"When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that."
"Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis."
"Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s."
"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received."
"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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