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- From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
- Subject: Re: Poincare on Set Theory (was Re: Philosophies...)
- In-Reply-To: ramsay@unixg.ubc.ca's message of Tue, 15 Sep 1992 00:24:13 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 06:03:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep15.002413.23869@unixg.ubc.ca> ramsay@unixg.ubc.ca
- (Keith Ramsay) writes:
-
- >It appears that this remark was misquoted by someone and then
- >repeated. Wasn't Poincare responsible for much of the development of
- >point-set topology anyway? This is from memory, so if anyone has the
- >exact reference, please let me/us know.
-
- I don't believe Poincare worked on point set topology. As for the
- "disease" comment, I read about this in "Basic concepts of algebraic
- topology" by Croom:
-
- "Indeed, in an address to the International Mathematical Congress
- of 1908, Poincare referred to point-set theory as a 'disease'
- from which future generations would recover."
-
- I have no first-hand knowledge of this address. Presumably somebody here
- knows bout it?
-