Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful
16 points by matt_d 2 hours ago | 2 comments

glimshe 9 minutes ago
If you can read this book cover-to-cover, you're an absolute hero. Sometimes I wonder if they inserted a big logical error in the middle just to troll people under the assumption nobody would bother to read it.
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gumby 2 minutes ago
You mean you don’t have a framed, signed, bug-bounty cheque from Alfred North Whitehead on your wall??

More seriously, there is indeed a huge logical error at the heart of the whole enterprise but it was not discovered until much later by Kurt Gödel.

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