Journal article
Bertrand Russell’s mathematical education
Abstract
The influence of Bertrand Russell (F.R.S., 1909) on the foundations of mathematics has an assured place in history, but some mathematicians who look closely at this influence may well have doubts about Russell’s overall view of mathematics and how compatible that view is with their own. The British mathematician R.O. Gandy, for example, has characterized certain of Russell’s expressions as ‘absurd’ and ‘stultifying’ and as denying ‘the …
Authors
Griffin N; Lewis AC
Journal
Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 51–71
Publisher
The Royal Society
Publication Date
January 31, 1990
DOI
10.1098/rsnr.1990.0004
ISSN
0035-9149