Russell as a Mathematician

[You]

…its like if you threw that spinning pizza into space and it attained orbit around the sun or a planet. Once in orbit it would be something real and meaningful. A definite stable even quantity. But if you tried to place a numerical value on its orbit it might be something ridiculous with endless meaningless decimal places…

 

[tomarin]

Has anyone read the Principles of Mathematics by Russell and Whitehead?

I’m putting it on my reading list. Do you need to know advanced math to understand it?

 

[You]

I’m putting it on my reading list. Do you need to know advanced math to understand it?

Do you? If not I might read it too.

 

[Rhubarb]

It’s not just a math book. It’s an attempt to formalize mathematics using symbolic logic. It’s more of mathematical logic text.