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You are here		www.thebigquestions.com The Generalist at Steven Landsburg \| The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics
\|	\|	liorpachter.wordpress.com The two cultures of mathematics and biology \| Bits of DNA	4.5 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	I'm a (50%) professor of mathematics and (50%) professor of molecular & cell biology at UC Berkeley.There have been plenty of days when I have spent the working hours with biologists and...	4.5 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	micromath.wordpress.com Donald Knuth: Calculus via O notation \| Mathematics under the Microscope	3.7 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	Continuing the theme of alternative approaches to teaching calculus, I take the liberty of posting a letter sent by Donald Knuth to to the Notices of the American Mathematical Society in March, 1998 (TeX file). Professor Anthony W. Knapp P O Box 333 East Setauket, NY 11733 Dear editor, I am pleased to see so...	3.7 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	ecodevoevo.blogspot.com The Mermaid's Tale: Philosophy of Science? Who needs it?	5.1 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	What is 'philosophy' of science? Does anyone actually need it? When I was an undergraduate, I was a math major and took an unofficial philo...	5.1 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	existentialtype.wordpress.com Proofs by contradiction, versus contradiction proofs \| Existential Type	27.2 parsecs away Travel
\|		It is well-known that constructivists renounce "proof by contradiction", and that classicists scoff at the critique. "Those constructivists," the criticismgoes, "want to rule out proofs by contradiction. How absurd! Look, Pythagoras showed that the square root of two is irrational by deriving a contradiction from the assumption that it is rational. There is nothing wrong...	27.2 parsecs away Travel