[Edu-sig] Programming for Fun Quote

Lloyd Hugh Allen lha2@columbia.edu
Fri, 28 Sep 2001 05:46:24 -0400


Mathematics hasn't provided a theoretically infinite level of
abstraction since 1934, when Godel gave his lectures on uncertainty.

It seems strange to me to separate mathematics and language (math seems
to have syntax and grammar), but maybe I've been doing too much geometry
and logic, and reading too much Hofstadter.