Book · 1910 · Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
Principia Mathematica
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And Bertrand Russell spent his whole, you know, big. Part of his life writing his book, Principia mathematica.
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And Russell and Whitehead wrote this huge set of of books, like two big books, Principia Mathematica, a thousand pages and the conclusion 1 + 1 = 2.
Charles Hoskinson Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2021 Where and when it comes up
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Principia Mathematica by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell is a massive, multi-volume foundational work in mathematical logic that famously attempted to prove the logical basis of mathematics, including taking hundreds of pages to formally demonstrate that one plus one equals two. Joe Folley and Alex O'Connor discussed the publication on Modern Wisdom, describing the three-volume project as an impenetrable undertaking that nobody has ever read in its entirety. Similarly, Matt McCusker mentioned on This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von that Bertrand Russell and Whitehead spent an immense amount of space proving basic arithmetic. Charles Hoskinson brought up the thousand-page set on the Lex Fridman Podcast while explaining late-nineteenth-century attempts to formally structure and establish mathematics. Amjad Masad also referenced Bertrand Russell's life's work on The Tucker Carlson Show while discussing the historical development of science and mathematics, as well as Russell's broader efforts to show that mathematics is complete, consistent, and computable. Across these podcast episodes, speakers consistently highlighted the sheer scale, ambition, and dense logical rigor of the historic project.
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Amjad Masad And Bertrand Russell spent his whole, you know, big. Part of his life writing his book, Principia mathematica. 2
“So, you know, you go back, you know, Bertrand Russell wrote a book about history, philosophy and history of mathematics and like, you know, going back to the ancients and, Pythagoras and all these things.”
“And Bertrand Russell spent his whole, you know, big. Part of his life writing his book, Principia mathematica.”
Charles Hoskinson And Russell and Whitehead wrote this huge set of of books, like two big books, Principia Mathematica, a tho… 1
“And Russell and Whitehead wrote this huge set of of books, like two big books, Principia Mathematica, a thousand pages and the conclusion 1 + 1 = 2.”
Joe Folley And although his uh you wrote a three volume insane project um is it two or three volumes? I always get too… 1
“And although his uh you wrote a three volume insane project um is it two or three volumes? I always get too confused. No, no, nobody's read the whole thing. This is like because it's it's deeply impenetrable. It takes like what 300 pages to prove that one ad one is two.”
Matt McCusker He wrote him and like 1
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