lbo-talk-digest V1 #5222

Ian Murray seamus2001 at home.com
Tue Nov 6 08:59:45 PST 2001


From: "ravi" <gadfly at home.com>


> Daniel Davies wrote:
>
> >
> > Depends on whether you'd call Barkley Rosser and his colleagues
> > mathematicians or economists.
>
> >
>
>
> is this the same barkley rosser who extended godel's incompleteness
> theorem, did work with kleene on showing the inconsistency of ML
> (quine's theory?), and also some of the stuff related to showing the
> equivalence of church's lambda calculus to recursive functions? i
> would certainly call him a mathematician! he is an economist too?
>
> --ravi
=========== Barkley Rosser Sr. was a mathematician who was a student of Alonzo Church. Barkley Rosser Jr. is an economist with exceptional mathematical gifts, to say the least...

Ian



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