Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used. — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are… — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia… — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me… — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field. — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that… — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
