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The governor of Utah has come out in support of civil unions.

The governor of Utah.

The times, they are a-changin'....

Ramble, Part 67: Refoundation

With the emergence of the new geometries and the new algebras, and with the general increase in abstraction that mathematics underwent in the nineteenth century, there came a need to find new foundations for the subject. If Euclid's certainties were to be dispensed with, where were mathematicians to find secure footing? Three main schools of thought emerged; the first, Logicism, saw in the work of Cantor a new beginning.

( Logicism: First Try )

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