Address at the Princeton University Bicentennial Conference on Problems of Mathematics

Hourya Benis Sinaceur (1)

1 IHPST - Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques

This article presents Tarski's Address at the Princeton Bicentennial Conference on Problems of Mathematics, together with a separate summary. Two accounts of the discus-sion which followed are also included. The central topic of the Address and of the discussion is decision problems. The introductory note gives information about the Conference, about the background of the subjects discussed in the Address, and about subsequent developments to these subjects.

Mots clés: Tarski

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Hourya Benis Sinaceur. Address at the Princeton University Bicentennial Conference on Problems of Mathematics. Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 2000, 6 (1), pp.1-44. ⟨halshs-01119630⟩