[FOM] Russell's influence

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Alasdair Urquhart urquhart at cs.toronto.edu 
Mon Oct 20 12:04:31 EDT 2003 

> Principia Mathematica, for all its faults, was THE treatise on  
> mathematical logic right into the 1920s.  Its influence on the 
> Polish and American schools of logic are so well known that 
> I need not go into details.  Its influence on the Hilbert school 
> is less well known, 

As it happens, there is now a good account of the latter in the latest 
(November) issue of SYNTHESE:

Paolo Mancosu: "The Russellian Influence on Hilbert and his School"

(the whole issue is on the history of logic; maybe someone might even be 
interested in my paper on Hilbert's program there...)

Best 

Panu


Panu Raatikainen

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