[FOM] 461: Reflections on Vienna Meeting

[Joe Shipman]

That Voevodsky lecture was embarrassingly ignorant. Even Fields Medalists can be idiots outside their area of mathematical expertise.

--JS


On May 15, 2011, at 11:08 AM, jkennedy at mappi.helsinki.fi (by way of Martin Davis <martin at eipye.com>) wrote:

> Harvey,
> 
> Re FOM 461, what ever happened to that nice attitude in mathematics:
> Chacun a son gout?
> 
> Anyway, since you mention Voevodsky, fom readers might be interested
> in his lecture
> called "What if Current Foundations of Mathematics are Inconsistent?"
> given at the
> Institute for Advanced Study September 2010.
> 
> video.ias.edu/voevodsky-80th
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Juliette
> 
> 
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