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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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| | This post is a follow-up on some somewhat off-hand comments that I made earlier regarding the notion of truth in a "proof-based" discipline such as pure mathematics or theoretical computer science. Since the former is easier to circumscribe and also has a larger literature available on it, for the purposes of the post I will...
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| A great new result in quantum complexity, Rahul Jain, Zhengfeng Ji, Sarvagya Upadhyay and John Watrous have shown that QIP is contained in P...