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"I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy."
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"Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s."
"I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy."
"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."
"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."
"I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton."
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"I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic."
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