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Mathematical Logic*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

F. P. Ramsey*
Affiliation:
King’s College, Cambridge

Extract

I have been asked to speak about developments in Mathematical Logic since the publication of Principia Mathematica, and I think it would be most interesting if, instead of describing various definite improvements of detail, I were to discuss in outline the work which has been done on entirely different lines, and claims to supersede altogether the position taken up by Whitehead and Russell, as to the nature of mathematics and its logical foundations.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1926

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Footnotes

*

A Paper Read Before The British Association, Oxford, 1926

References

* For instance, as the White Knight said, “Everybody that hears me sing—either it brings the tears into their eyes or else” “Or else what ?” said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause. “Or else it doesn’t, you know.”