FOM: Re: Kline/Davis/Friedman (correction)

Martin Davis martind at cs.berkeley.edu
Sat Jan 3 12:48:07 EST 1998


At 11:27 AM 1/3/98 EST, Dana_Scott at POP.CS.CMU.EDU wrote:
>
>Martin Davis said about Morris Kline "I believe that he never grasped
>the concept of a formal logical system."  Friedman agrees.  Both Davis
>and Friedman, however, give Kline good marks for many aspects of his
>synoptic exposition of the history of mathematics

It's not important, but in fact I never gave Kline the alleged "good marks".

Martin Davis




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