What Is the Dark Age of Mathematics?

In the early twentieth century, you had economic and political revolutions at the same time. The logisists said that mathematics is an extension of logic. So when you start asking philosophical questions we don't have, we run into paradoxes. That's a very big problem. And i see tons of connections to that 70 year time period from 18 80 to 19 50,. where it was tumultuous intellectually as well as historically and politically. Electrification was happening. You know, there was a lot going on then.

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