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Ideas of Haskell B. Curry, by Text

[American, 1900 - 1982, Studied in Germany. Professor at Penn State University.]

1954	Remarks on the definition and nature of mathematics

'Mathematics'

p.206

17808

Saying mathematics is logic is merely replacing one undefined term by another

'The formalist'

p.204

17807

To study formal systems, look at the whole thing, and not just how it is constructed in steps

'The problem'

p.202

17806

It is untenable that mathematics is general physical truths, because it needs infinity