Russian logics and the culture of impossible: Part II: Reinterpreting algorithmic rationality

• Main Authors: TATARCHENKO, Ksenia, Yermakova, Anya, De Mol, Liesbeth
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: algorithm; logic; cybernetics; Soviet Union; Cold War; Vladimir Uspensky; Logic and Foundations of Mathematics; Philosophy of Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3544; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4802/viewcontent/PART2Russian_Logics_and_the_Cybernetics_of_Impossible_sv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This article reinterprets algorithmic rationality by looking at the interaction between mathematical logic, mechanized reasoning, and, later, computing in the Russian Imperial and Soviet contexts to offer a history of the algorithm as a mathematical object bridging the inner and outer worlds, a huma...