In 2015, I applied to give the student commencement address at the UCLA department of psychology graduation ceremony. To be considered, each applicant submits a draft of what they would like to say. A ...
No less a mind than Bertrand Russell, of Principia Mathematica fame, was responsible for this paradox, which opened a hole in math. It’s those barbers. The Barber Paradox shows that barbers are not to ...
Bertrand Russell's Principia Mathematica (which he co-wrote with Alfred North Whitehead) is probably the most impenetrable book ever written by a winner of the Nobel prize for literature. In it, the ...
THE great achievement of the authors of “Principia Mathematica” is to have deduced mathematics by strict symbolic reasoning from a small number of logical propositions. This was previously attempted ...
In 2015, I applied to give the student commencement address at the UCLA department of psychology graduation ceremony. To be considered, each applicant submits a draft of what they would like to say. A ...