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The renaming of the title is uncalled for. This response by Edward Nelson was the highlight: > You are quite right, and my original response was wrong. Thank
by vymague 5y ago
The renaming of the title is uncalled for. This response by Edward Nelson was the highlight:
> You are quite right, and my original response was wrong. Thank you for spotting my error.
> I withdraw my claim.
- woopwoop 5y agoOP here. I agree. I'm a mathematician, and like most mathematicians I find discussions of foundations actually kind of tedious (although obviously a proof that Peano arithmetic was inconsistent would be a big deal). Also only a handful of HN readers have anything at all to gain from the technical discussion here. What is of interest to the HN readership is the sociology of mathematics on display. Hence the original title.