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| | What follows are the opening paragraphs of a pdf document giving an argument for controlled natural languages in mathematics. At the recent Big Proof 2 conference in Edinburgh, I realized that a case must be made for developing a controlled natural language for mathematics. There is little consensus on this issue, and mathematicians and computer...
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| | 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...
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| | [AI summary] A technical discussion distinguishing between proof by contradiction and proof of negation within the context of classical and intuitionistic logic.
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| (see also pdf version) Quantum computing is one of the most exciting developments of computer science in the last decades. But this concept is not without its critics, often known as "quantum computing skeptics" or "skeptics" for short. The debate on quantum computing can sometimes confuse the physical and mathematical aspects of this question,...