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@Article{Curtis:1975:CSF,
  author =       "Kent K. Curtis",
  title =        "Computer science, federal programs, and {Nirvana}",
  journal =      j-SIGCSE,
  volume =       "7",
  number =       "1",
  pages =        "109--113",
  month =        feb,
  year =         "1975",
  CODEN =        "SIGSD3",
  DOI =          "https://doi.org/10.1145/953064.811142",
  ISSN =         "0097-8418 (print), 2331-3927 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "0097-8418",
  bibdate =      "Sun Nov 18 08:53:50 MST 2012",
  bibsource =    "http://portal.acm.org/;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigcse1970.bib",
  note =         "Proceedings of the 5th SIGCSE symposium on Computer
                 science education.",
  abstract =     "My text this morning comes from a highly regarded
                 German algebraist of the nineteenth century, Leopold
                 Kronecker. He was engaged in a vigorous debate with
                 other mathematicians on exactly this question, what are
                 the foundations of mathematics? What set of axioms can
                 be used as a basis for deriving everything else? Most
                 mathematicians were following directions of thought
                 which invoked the concept of infinity, infinite
                 sequences, infinite sets, infinite classes, and
                 reciprocally, the notion of infinitesimal. By
                 consistent application of logic, their premise
                 inexorably led to further elaborations such as
                 trans-finite numbers which are esoteric in the
                 experience of most of us. Kronecker vigorously asserted
                 that following this path was an error. He claimed that
                 one must begin, and not only begin but remain content
                 with the integers and those things which can be
                 described algorithmically in terms of them. ``God made
                 the integers, and all the rest is the work of man.''",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  fjournal =     "SIGCSE Bulletin (ACM Special Interest Group on
                 Computer Science Education)",
  journal-URL =  "http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?idx=J688",
}

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