FOM: judging f.o.m.

Vaughan Pratt pratt at cs.Stanford.EDU
Sun Mar 15 12:40:15 EST 1998


From: Harvey Friedman <friedman at math.ohio-state.edu>
>In this posting, I may convince people that I am worse than Simpson.

Reuben Hersh's thesis that mathematics is a social activity has the
obvious antithesis: foundations of mathematics is an antisocial activity.

Category theorists are kinder, they would only call you cosocial.

Vaughan Pratt



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