Talk:Kurt Gödel: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
imported>Larry Sanger No edit summary |
imported>J. Noel Chiappa (Definitely more important than Russell/Whitehead) |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{subpages}} | {{subpages}} | ||
==Most important?== | |||
''The'' most important? Then what counts as "modern times"? Frege and Russell/Whitehead each have as strong a claim as Goedel. --[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] 10:03, 4 June 2008 (CDT) | ''The'' most important? Then what counts as "modern times"? Frege and Russell/Whitehead each have as strong a claim as Goedel. --[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] 10:03, 4 June 2008 (CDT) | ||
: For 'modern times', I was sort of meaning the 20th century. | |||
: As to the magnitude, I was echoing a quote I saw in the Stanford EP: "established, beyond comparison, as the most important logician of our times," Solomon Feferman (Feferman 1986). That article also describes Godel as having "founded the modern, metamathematical era in mathematical logic." | |||
: I would say he's definitely more important that Russell/Whitehead, because he proved that their whole system (and the whole Hilbert program) was to some degree built on quicksand. <s>FWIW</s>For what it's worth, I would think Turing was more important (in terms of mathematical logic - to me, all computability/computing stuff is a subset of mathematical logic) than Russell/Whitehead, no? I mean, not just in everyday implications (computers), but also the whole computable numbers thing, the [[halting problem]], yadda-yadda. | |||
: Frege I don't know so much about, maybe he's as important at Godel. [[User:J. Noel Chiappa|J. Noel Chiappa]] 10:31, 4 June 2008 (CDT) | |||
Latest revision as of 09:31, 4 June 2008
Most important?
The most important? Then what counts as "modern times"? Frege and Russell/Whitehead each have as strong a claim as Goedel. --Larry Sanger 10:03, 4 June 2008 (CDT)
- For 'modern times', I was sort of meaning the 20th century.
- As to the magnitude, I was echoing a quote I saw in the Stanford EP: "established, beyond comparison, as the most important logician of our times," Solomon Feferman (Feferman 1986). That article also describes Godel as having "founded the modern, metamathematical era in mathematical logic."
- I would say he's definitely more important that Russell/Whitehead, because he proved that their whole system (and the whole Hilbert program) was to some degree built on quicksand.
FWIWFor what it's worth, I would think Turing was more important (in terms of mathematical logic - to me, all computability/computing stuff is a subset of mathematical logic) than Russell/Whitehead, no? I mean, not just in everyday implications (computers), but also the whole computable numbers thing, the halting problem, yadda-yadda. - Frege I don't know so much about, maybe he's as important at Godel. J. Noel Chiappa 10:31, 4 June 2008 (CDT)