Industrial Strength Total Failure
- ๐ค Speaker: Dr Piers Bursill-Hall
- ๐ Date & Time: Saturday 23 February 2019, 09:00 - 09:45
- ๐ Venue: Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College
Abstract
What was the state of mathematics – and particularly the foundations of mathematics – when Russell came up to Cambridge, and what would have driven him to the project of the Principia Mathematica … one of the most extraordinary and important failures of 20th century mathematics.
Series This talk is part of the Trinity Mathematical Society series.
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Dr Piers Bursill-Hall
Saturday 23 February 2019, 09:00-09:45