Timeline for How much of mathematics did Russell's paradox really break?
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| S Jul 6, 2020 at 2:21 | history | edited | N. Virgo |
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| S Jul 6, 2020 at 2:21 | history | suggested | Rodrigo de Azevedo |
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| Mar 6, 2020 at 17:01 | answer | added | Mozibur Ullah | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 31, 2018 at 20:54 | comment | added | Robert Furber | @BillyRubina That footnote says that he "might have been pre-empted" by Thierry of Chartres. This does not imply that Russell had any awareness of his work. | |
| S Jun 20, 2017 at 13:23 | history | suggested | Franz Kurz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 15, 2017 at 14:20 | answer | added | Franz Kurz | timeline score: -3 | |
| Jan 23, 2016 at 16:24 | comment | added | Red Banana | When I heard this paradox for the first time, I was curious: What sort of mathematical entity was Russell thinking in order to obtain this? According to Peter J Cameron, he was motivated by some readings on the theologian Thierry of Chartres. Jesus is always a screw up, see? | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 8:06 | answer | added | Nikolaj-K | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 20, 2015 at 10:19 | comment | added | Paul Siegel | Note that Russell's paradox doesn't actually break all that much of even naive set theory; it only comes up when you try to create really big sets. You can do most of combinatorics without straying beyond finite sets, and you can do most of analysis without straying beyond subsets of Euclidean space (or maybe sets of continuous functions on Euclidean space, which also aren't a problem). These sorts of foundational issues really only showed up on working mathematicians' radar screens when algebraists and topologists started to embrace the language of categories and universal constructions. | |
| Sep 18, 2015 at 5:43 | vote | accept | N. Virgo | ||
| Sep 17, 2015 at 12:24 | answer | added | Alexandre Eremenko | timeline score: 16 | |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 8:36 | review | First posts | |||
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| Sep 17, 2015 at 8:27 | history | asked | N. Virgo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
