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Philosophy of Mathematics, Exam Paper 122, Oxford University Wednesdays 12-1 during term, Radcliffe Humanities Lecture Room Joel David Hamkins, Professor of Logic Lucy, Charles - Personifications o...
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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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Exploring 3 different ways of encoding the natural numbers - Read more: https://cronokirby.com/posts/2020/08/encoding-the-naturals/
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The ``probabilistic method'' is the art of applying probabilistic thinking to non-probabilistic problems. Applications of the probabilistic method often feel like magic. Here is my favorite example: Theorem (Erdös, 1965). Call a set $latex {X}&fg=000000$ sum-free if for all $latex {a, b \in X}&fg=000000$, we have $latex {a + b \not\in X}&fg=000000$. For any finite...
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