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No Principia Mathematica, or anything on Cantor or Kronecker - though they might be touched on elsewhere in the list. They do include a intro to infinity, which
by KGIII 9y ago
No Principia Mathematica, or anything on Cantor or Kronecker - though they might be touched on elsewhere in the list. They do include a intro to infinity, which I've not read.
I'm not actually sure that is a bad thing. So, just a curiosity.
- dagw 9y agoWe're talking undergraduate here. Undergraduate level math is really just about introducing the basic concepts of mathematics. There is no way your average undergraduate student would gain anything of note from trying to read Principia.
- KGIII 9y agoI was a math major and consumed it while an undergrad. I also would find that a good time to start work on infinity and save randomness for graduate levels. Kids these days! ;-) I do suppose it may be a bit different today, as I'd expect today's foundations to include more computer-centric course. That is not a complaint, just a sign of the times. We were, for the most part, expected to figure that out on our own.
- dagw 9y agoUndergraduate courses will obviously cover the core ideas discovered by Russel, Whitehead, Cantor etc. The basic concepts from their works where certainly introduced to us during the first year of my undergrad math degree, and built upon during subsequent courses. I just think that expecting undergrads to read the actual works of Russel, Whitehead, Cantor etc. is not the best use of their times.