I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.
I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.
I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.
When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.
For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal.
I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.
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