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Alonzo Church Quotes
Page 1 of 1Alonzo Church
June 14, 1903 - August 11, 1995
Nationality: American
Category: Mathematician
Subcategory: American Mathematician
|  Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field. | | I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading. | | The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions. | | I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue. | | Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used. |
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