[FOM] late 19th/early 20th C women in foundations

[Mate Szabo]

Rózsa Péter wrote the first book in recursion theory and contributed to the
field herself.

Mate Szabo

-- 
PhD Student

Carnegie Mellon University
Department of Philosophy
161 Baker Hall
Pittsburgh, PA, 15213-3890

https://cmu.academia.edu/MateSzabo

2017-03-08 16:45 GMT-05:00 Sara L. Uckelman <s.l.uckelman at durham.ac.uk>:

> It's International Women's Day and I'm preparing for tomorrow's seminar
> on formalism; these two things together led me to a question which if
> anyone can answer, it's the collective knowledge of FOM:
>
> In the late 19th/early 20th C foundational tradition of Cantor-Dedekind-
> Frege-Russell-Hilbert, etc., were there any female contributors?  I
> know that post-Godel there are certainly people writing on foundations/
> philosophy of math, but I'm interested in people who were actually
> working at the time foundational questions were being formulated as
> well as being answered.
>
> Thanks,
> -Sara
>
>
> --
> Dr. Sara L. Uckelman
> Department of Philosophy
> Durham University
> https://www.dur.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/?id=12928
>
> The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources
> http://dmnes.org/
>
> _______________________________________________
> FOM mailing list
> FOM at cs.nyu.edu
> http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/fom
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: </pipermail/fom/attachments/20170310/882edb20/attachment-0001.html>