What is Mac Lane Missing?
1992; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1007/978-1-4613-9754-0_9
ISSN0940-4740
Autores ResumoA sociologist observing the 1989/90 Logic Year at the Berkeley Mathematical Sciences Research Institute would have judged it to be a typical gathering of mathematicians, exchanging ideas, running seminars to chip away at current problems, and writing papers and books. But there was one speaker who from time to time would tell the others that they were working on the wrong problems in the wrong subject. This was not the result of a momentary aversion: Professor Mac Lane has for at least twenty years been saying that “set theory is obsolete,” that “measurable cardinals are bizarre,” and so on, and he has written one large book ([2]) and many articles in order to present his view of mathematics.
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