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Talkig of Russell, I can't imagine how he and Whitehead felt when the huge edifice of the Principia Mathemetica simply crumbled away under the onslaught of the
by Angostura 7y ago
Talkig of Russell, I can't imagine how he and Whitehead felt when the huge edifice of the Principia Mathemetica simply crumbled away under the onslaught of the incompleteness theorem.
- QuesnayJr 7y agoI don't think it did. I'm sure they would have liked it if incompleteness didn't hold, but PM was influential in advancing mathematical logic, which is still going strong. What happened is that the system itself was supplanted by first order logic and set theory.