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For those who aren't regular readers: as a followup to this post, there are four posts detailing the basic four methods of proof, with intentions to detail some more advanced proof techniques in the future. You can find them on this blog's primers page. Do you really want to get better at mathematics? Remember when you first learned how to program? I do. I spent two years experimenting with Java programs on my own in high school.
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An interview with UT computer scientist and OpenAI researcher Scott Aaronson.
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Two years ago, I posted detailed lecture notes on this blog for my Intro to Quantum Information Science undergrad course at UT Austin. Today, with enormous thanks to UT PhD student Corey Ostrove, we've gotten the notes into a much better shape (for starters, they're now in LaTeX). You can see the results here (7MB)---it's...
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As the old joke goes, "Who's that guy next to Mazur?" Barry Mazur, my Ph.D. advisor, was awarded the National Medal of Science last week. It's hard to overstate the extent to which his work and his outlook have affected the direction of number theory. And of course my own way of doing math is...
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