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| | [AI summary] A blog archive listing titled 'ThatsMaths' containing over 600 posts from 2002 to 2025 covering mathematical history, problems, applications, and scientific concepts.
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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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| | [Update: Lots of traffic coming in from Hacker News, much of it presumably from outside the usual pro number theory crowd that reads this blog. If you're not already familiar with the ABC conjecture, I recommend Barry Mazur's beautiful expository paper "Questions about Number."] [Re-update: Minhyong Kim's discussion on Math Overflowis the most well-informed public...
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| The "historical turn" in the philosophy of science in the 1960s and 1970s gave most of its attention to the development of the physical sciences -- especially physics itself. (See Tom Nickles' essay "Historicist Theories of Scientific Rationality" in theStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophyfor a detailed account of this development in the philosophy of science;link.) Historian-philosophers...