Events Tagged: "foundations crisis"

Michel Rolle launches sustained attack on infinitesimal calculus at French Academy, calling it 'a collection of ingenious fallacies' with 'impossibilities and contradictions'

Bertrand Russell discovers Russell's Paradox in Frege's system, precipitating the foundational crisis in mathematics

Russell writes to Frege informing him of the paradox in his logical system, devastating Frege's logicist program

Gödel announces his incompleteness theorems at Königsberg conference, shocking the mathematical community