From: F W Lawvere <wlawvere@ACSU.Buffalo.EDU>
To: CATEGORIES@mta.ca
Subject: Re: incompleteness of ZF
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 17:41:04 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9904061730560.74-100000@xena.acsu.buffalo.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199904031512.AA079642350@fb0448.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de>
Using an old logician's trick (see eg Feferman on paths thru O, or even
Goedel's original papers) as an
April Fool joke
may be amusing to some within the closed gates of a British University,
but is irresponsible on the world network. Think of the hundreds of
lurkers (who hesitate to speak up so that misconceptions can
be discussed and clarified openly, but) who are now furthering the rumor
that mathematics has somehow been proved inconsistent.The waves of such
disinformation can last for years or even decades.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-04-06 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-04-03 15:12 Thomas Streicher
1999-04-06 21:41 ` F W Lawvere [this message]
1999-04-07 23:45 ` R.A.G. Seely
1999-04-08 13:08 ` April 1st & related matters Robert Dawson
1999-04-08 7:49 incompleteness of ZF Michael Abbott
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