Alonzo Church Quotes

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.
Alonzo Church

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.
Alonzo Church

Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.
Alonzo Church

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.
Alonzo Church

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.
Alonzo Church

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Alonzo Church Quotes

Type: Mathematician Quotes Category: American Mathematician Quotes Date of Birth: June 14, 1903 Date of Death: August 11, 1995 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Alonzo Church Related Authors: John Forbes Nash Edward Witten Ben Hecht Stephen Cole Kleene Daniel J. Bernstein John Forbes Nash, Jr. Norbert Wiener Ronald Graham	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. Alonzo Church 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. Alonzo Church Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field. Alonzo Church 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. Alonzo Church 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. Alonzo Church