We compare Gödel’s and Brouwer’s explorations of mysticism and its relation to mathematics.

This is a collection of vivid and stimulating writings in various literary forms by a well-known mathematician who is having an increasing influence as a philosopher. It contains a core of papers that will change the face of the philosophy of mathematics and one of the most important papers on philosophical logic of this closing century, one that enables a fully effective transcendental logic. Indiscrete Thoughts, together with the previous anthology, makes Rota’s philosophical writings accessible.