Ch. David Corfield — 'Is our mathematics natural?' by David Ruelle (contd.)
Recorded at Philosophy of Mathematics Reading Group, Cambridge (2002), featuring David Corfield, Others. From the Michael Wright Collection, held by the Archive Trust for Research in Mathematical Sciences & Philosophy.
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0:00 That really was that level of a foundations crisis for the philosophers, but not the philosophers behind it, because there was all the same language for generations before, having to accommodate themselves to algebraic sets, and decomposition of algebraic sets, and how the history might have been different. I'm not going to read back. I'd like to have the whole content of the Mac inserted into my brain.
5:00 I'd like to have the whole content of Giordani's big book on algebra. I apologize, I woke up one morning by a little bit of patch directing to your neural net, maybe in a couple of hundred years that would be possible. But given that that isn't going to happen, I do need to go through any advice you can give us. Does David actually put that there? No, not the reading. Yeah, I know it is. It's in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.
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