FOM: What were Kronecker's f.o.m.?

[Peter Schuster]

In view of the purpose of f.o.m. recently recalled by 
Stephen Simpson, let me freely quote Leopold Kronecker's 
well-known dictum (reference unknown):

    "Gott hat die Zahlen gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk." 
    ["God made the numbers, everything else is made by men."] 

It is rather tempting to conclude that in Kronecker's eyes the 
(rational) numbers were the only foundations of mathematics. 




Name: Peter M. Schuster
Position: Wissenschaftlicher Assistent
Instituition: University of Munich, Mathematics Department
Research interest: constructive mathematics
http://www.mathematik.uni-muenchen.de/~pschust