Nicolas D. Goodman
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mathematician who spent most of his life at the State University of New York at Buffalo, doing research in mathematical logic, particularly combinatory logic and intuitionism.
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Science Quotes by Nicolas D. Goodman (2 quotes)
Mathematics is a public activity. It occurs in a social context and has social consequences. Posing a problem, formulating a definition, proving a theorem are none of them private acts. They are all part of that larger social process we call science.
— Nicolas D. Goodman
In 'Mathematics as an Objective Science', The American Mathematical Monthly (Aug-Sep 1979), 86, No. 7, 542. Reprinted in The Mathematical Intelligencer (1983), 5, No. 3.
There are no deep theorems—only theorems that we have not understood very well.
— Nicolas D. Goodman
In 'Reflections on Bishops Philosophy of Mathematics', Constructive Mathematics: Proceedings of the New Mexico State University Conference Held at Las Cruces, New Mexico, August 11-15, 1980 (1981), 137.