[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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