[FOM] Mumford on the foundations of Mathematics

Timothy Y. Chow tchow at alum.mit.edu
Mon Aug 28 13:32:16 EDT 2006


John T. Baldwin wrote:

> Fom members may be interested in the following article.  In addition to 
> the tenditious account of logic vrs stochasticity, there is a intriguing 
> `disproof' of the continuum hypothesis on page 13.
> 
> D. Mumford, ?The Age of Stochasticity?
> <http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/mumford/Papers/Dawning.pdf>
> http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/mumford/Papers/Dawning.pdf

Mumford's (or rather, Freiling's) argument regarding the continuum 
hypothesis was discussed on FOM a couple of years ago.  See

http://cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/2004-September/008448.html

and followups.

Tim


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