[FOM] Logicomix

Charles Silver silver_1 at mindspring.com
Sat Apr 24 14:30:50 EDT 2010


		I've heard the claim more than once that Tarski was exceptionally  
sane.

On Apr 23, 2010, at 4:58 PM, Richard Zach wrote:

>
>> I took the main theme of the book to be that it is very hard to pin  
>> down
>> the foundations of mathematics.  Admittedly not all characters were
>> equally healthy mentally, with the more pathological ones ranging  
>> from
>> eccentric to insane as alluded to a number of times, but was any
>> character in the book misrepresented in this regard?
>
> See
> http://people.ucalgary.ca/~rzach/logblog/2009/09/logic-and- 
> madness.html
>
> -Richard
>
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