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Peter Percival

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Jan 28, 2017, 4:48:35 PM1/28/17
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If anyone knows where on the Interweb there is a copy of Vincent
Homolka's thesis /A System of Finite Set Theory Equivalent to Elementary
Arithmetic/ I'd be happy to be told.

Submitted in 1983, so pre TeX, but some enterprising person may have
scanned it... (Yes, I know that TeX dates from the late 70s, but I
think that a few years passed before it was used for Rightpondian theses
(and when it was, double spacing was still required for yet more years -
strange).)

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William Elliot

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Jan 30, 2017, 4:15:28 AM1/30/17
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On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, Peter Percival wrote:

> If anyone knows where on the Interweb there is a copy of Vincent
> Homolka's thesis /A System of Finite Set Theory Equivalent to
> Elementary
> Arithmetic/ I'd be happy to be told.

Use a search engine such as Duckduckgo that's more to the point and
doesn't track your browsing history.

Jack Campin

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Jan 30, 2017, 6:17:34 PM1/30/17
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William Elliot <ma...@panix.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, Peter Percival wrote:
> > If anyone knows where on the Interweb there is a copy of Vincent
> > Homolka's thesis /A System of Finite Set Theory Equivalent to
> > Elementary Arithmetic/ I'd be happy to be told.
> Use a search engine such as Duckduckgo that's more to the point
> and doesn't track your browsing history.

If it's so good, have you found that thesis yet?

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William Elliot

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Jan 31, 2017, 1:43:22 AM1/31/17
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On Mon, 30 Jan 2017, Jack Campin wrote:
> William Elliot <ma...@panix.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, Peter Percival wrote:

> > > If anyone knows where on the Interweb there is a copy of Vincent
> > > Homolka's thesis /A System of Finite Set Theory Equivalent to
> > > Elementary Arithmetic/ I'd be happy to be told.
> > Use a search engine such as Duckduckgo that's more to the point
> > and doesn't track your browsing history.
>
> If it's so good, have you found that thesis yet?

Yes.

Peter Percival

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Jan 31, 2017, 9:57:32 AM1/31/17
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Please let me know where. Thank you.

Peter Percival

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Jan 31, 2017, 10:11:13 AM1/31/17
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Peter Percival wrote:
> William Elliot wrote:
>> On Mon, 30 Jan 2017, Jack Campin wrote:
>>> William Elliot <ma...@panix.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, Peter Percival wrote:
>>
>>>>> If anyone knows where on the Interweb there is a copy of Vincent
>>>>> Homolka's thesis /A System of Finite Set Theory Equivalent to
>>>>> Elementary Arithmetic/ I'd be happy to be told.
>>>> Use a search engine such as Duckduckgo that's more to the point
>>>> and doesn't track your browsing history.
>>>
>>> If it's so good, have you found that thesis yet?

Um... William replied "yes" and I seem to have deleted it. Had I not
done so...

> Please let me know where. Thank you.

... would have made more sense.

William Elliot

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Feb 1, 2017, 7:41:03 AM2/1/17
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On Tue, 31 Jan 2017, Peter Percival wrote:
> William Elliot wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Jan 2017, Jack Campin wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, Peter Percival wrote:
> >
> > > > > If anyone knows where on the Interweb there is a copy of
> > > > > Vincent Homolka's thesis /A System of Finite Set Theory
> > > > > Equivalent to Elementary Arithmetic/ I'd be happy to be
> > > > > told.
> > > > Use a search engine such as Duckduckgo that's more to the point
> > > > and doesn't track your browsing history.
> > >
> > > If it's so good, have you found that thesis yet?
>
> Please let me know where. Thank you.

3. [4]CiteSeerX -- On interpretations of bounded arithmetic
and ...
On interpretations of bounded arithmetic and bounded set
theory (807) Cached. ... A System of Finite Set Theory
Equivalent to Elementary Arithmetic - Homolka ...
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.248.2273

4. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.248.2273

Peter Percival

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Feb 1, 2017, 10:33:25 AM2/1/17
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The thesis is cited but is not there for reading or downloading. What
is available there is Pettigrew's paper which cites Homolka. (Citations
aplenty I found when I first looked.)

FredJeffries

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Feb 1, 2017, 12:48:38 PM2/1/17
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On Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 1:48:35 PM UTC-8, Peter Percival wrote:
> If anyone knows where on the Interweb there is a copy of Vincent
> Homolka's thesis /A System of Finite Set Theory Equivalent to Elementary
> Arithmetic/ I'd be happy to be told.

It does not seem to be available online through ProQuest

http://www.proquest.com/products-services/dissertations/

Peter Percival

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Feb 1, 2017, 12:52:43 PM2/1/17
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Thank you. Here is the man in question:
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/vincent-homolka-300769a1. So he may be
emailable.

Jack Campin

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Feb 2, 2017, 8:15:43 AM2/2/17
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Peter Percival

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Feb 2, 2017, 8:48:27 AM2/2/17
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Thank you. That's an impressive URL.
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