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henrikwarne.com
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| | | | | Before I read The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya, I only knew about John von Neumann in two contexts: that computers use the von Neumann architecture, and that he appeared in a story about a mathematical problem I remember from many years ago. After reading it, I understand what a genius he was,... | |
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terrytao.wordpress.com
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| | | | | Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? What happens in the classical sp... | |
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njwildberger.com
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| | | | | There are several approaches to the modern theory of "real numbers". Unfortunately, none of them makes complete sense. One hundred years ago, there was vigorous discussion about the ambiguities with them and Cantor's theory of "infinite sets". As time went by, the debate subsided but the difficulties didn't really go away. A largely unquestioning uniformity... | |
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themultidisciplinarian.com
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| | | NASA reports that ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that human-caused climate change is happening. As with earlier posts on popular miscarriages of science, I look at climate science through the lens of the 20th century historians of science and philosophers of science and conclude that climate science is epistemically thin. To elaborate a bit,... | ||
