[FOM] Logicomix

[sambin@math.unipd.it]

Quoting Charles Silver <silver_1 at mindspring.com>:

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

Perhaps you have not read yet Tarski's biography by A. and S. Feferman

Giovanni

>
> 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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