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February 17, 2013Principia Mathematica

Principia Mathematica – The Musical

Since pretty much any subject matter these days is open to be musicalized (or Andrew Lloyd “Vombo”rized) why not this? (H/T to my chum and Russell scholar Andrew Irvine). The world premiere of a fascinating and unusual new work by Tyrone Landau based on ‘Principia Mathematica’ by Alfred North Whitehead & Bertrand Russell, published in the…

September 4, 2010artificial intelligence, cognitive science, Herbert Simon, hunter heyck, Principia Mathematica, russell, whitehead

On hearing that Simon’s “thinking machine” computer program Logic Theorist not only validated Russell and Whitehead’s axioms and theorems (but even proved one more elegantly), Russell replied: “I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. I [only] wish Whitehead and I had known of this possibility before we both…