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I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.

~Alonzo Church

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I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.

~Alonzo Church

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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

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The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.

~Alonzo Church

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Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.

~Alonzo Church

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Mathematician

Born: June 14th, 1903

Died: August 11th, 1995

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