Abstract
AN interesting appointment has been made at Leicester to the newly created chair of mathematics. Dr. R. L. Goodstein, of St. Paul‘s School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, has been a lecturer at Reading since 1935. He has no less extensive a knowledge of mathematics, as commonly understood, than any of his contemporaries ; but it was Wittgenstein who excited and inspired him, and he has made his reputation and won his position by original work on the foundations of mathematics. Jt is half a century since Russell first insisted that investigation into the principles of mathematics was a task for expert mathematicians, not for philosophers, but hitherto the subject has been one in which a mathematician could not take more than an amateur interest without endangering his professional status. A bad tradition has been shattered at last.
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