FOM: McCarthy

[David J. Pym]

Thomas Forster wrote:
> 
> Can anyone supply ref, or exact wording, of the remark of John
> McCarthy's that Logic and computational complexity will be as rich
> a source of stimuls for mathematics in the 21st century as Mathematical
> Physics was in the last?
> 
>     thanks
> 
>         Thomas Forster





``It is reasonable to hope that the relationship between computation and
mathematical logic will be as fruitful in the next century as that
between analysis and physics
in the last. The development of this relationship demands a concern for
both applications and for mathematical elegance.''  




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