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Comment by TimorousBestie

18 hours ago

> As a point of reference, MIT's capstone mathematical logic course[1] has a syllabus that requires at least as much mathematical maturity,

The textbooks they use in that course are written in modern notation and are accessible to a knowledgeable reader; neither can be said of the Principia Mathematica. The archaic syntax is a serious issue.

I did give it a try many years ago, I think as undergrad, but gave up after a few pages, because for me it was nearly impossible to parse the syntax.