Re: are numbers boring?

Taylor (taylor@BEST.COM)
Sun, 29 Oct 1995 14:03:27 -0800

Also sprach 'Alan Sondheim' :

>For myself, I tends towards a Platonism, much as Godel did, although a
>friend of mine, working with the Russian mathematician Alexander
>Essenin-Volpin, tends towards what he calls ultra-intuitionism, a radical
>form of intuitionism which argues that perception and construction, not
>closure, are at the heart of mathematics.
>
>Alan, hoping he's not intruding

No, this thread needed some new blood to stir things up a bit. We've been
all hanging out at various poles on this subject.

Since I seem to be in that camp, could you tell me more about your friend
and his theories?

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