Stephen Cole
Stephen Cole
effective movement unless
As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know.
catherine children dreams favourite invalid liked lots met shared spooky tale trapped
I liked lots of 'Doctor Who' books, but my favourite tale was a spooky story about two invalid children - who've never met in the real world - who get trapped in a shared dreamscape when they fall asleep. It's called 'Marianne Dreams' by Catherine Storr.
longer
I actually enjoy writing longer books because you have even more to get your storytelling teeth into.
amherst education liberal mathematics
I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.
maybe studied
I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.
academic february princeton remained research returned year
I returned to Princeton with a research assistantship on February 7, 1934, and remained there through the academic year 1934-35.
course papers published second trained until
And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished.
interested logical publish rather
For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal.
ended june left submitted time
Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.
philosophy philosophical able
I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.
years church
It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.
mathematical-logic wisconsin undergraduate
Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.
philosophy splits mathematics
I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.
journey ideas europe
I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe.