Science And Math Was: Python's Lisp heritage

[Torkel Franzen]

Alwyn <alwyn at alwyn.demon.co.uk> writes:

> I recall that Russell reports having had discussions with Goedel, 
> Einstein and other distinguished emigres in America. He found their 
> ideas impossibly 'Platonist', and he could not abide them. 

  Russell does indeed comment on Godel's platonism, but Einstein
doesn't enter into it. Russell was himself very much a platonist
in his early days.