Philosopher
John Penn Mayberry
Overview
John Penn Mayberry (18 November 1939 – 19 August 2016) was an American mathematical philosopher and creator of a distinctive Aristotelian philosophy of mathematics to which he gave expression in his book The Foundations of Mathematics in the Theory of Sets. Following completion of a Ph.D. at Illinois under the supervision of Gaisi Takeuti, he took up, in 1966, a position in the mathematics department of the University of Bristol. He remained there until his retirement in 2004 as a Reader in Mathematics.
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Ideas John Penn Mayberry discusses
- Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory
- Truth value
- Mathematical induction
- Intuitionism
- Richard Dedekind
- Euclid's Elements
- Roger Penrose
- Philosophy of mathematics
- Oxford University Press
- Henri Poincaré
- Classical logic
- Hilbert's program
- University of Bristol
- Cambridge University Press
- Empty set
Place in the tradition
Part of Philosophy of mathematics.