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| | I have written about geometric construction a number of times on this blog, and on my website. I outlined my philosophical outlook on this topic here. Today I summarize some construction activities, a subset of the unit you can find on my website. ---------------------------------- Geometric construction with straightedge and compass is a standard topic in...
| | njwildberger.com
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| | This coming Tuesday in the Pure Maths Seminar at UNSW I will be giving a talk: Here are the details, in case you are in Sydney and are interested. The talk is at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW, Kensington campus, building the Red Centre, which is up the main walkway from Anzac Parade....
| | carcinisation.com
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| | Gödel's theorems say something important about the limits of mathematical proof. Proofs in mathematics are (among other things) arguments. A typical mathematical argument may not be "inside" the universe it's saying something about. The Pythagorean theorem is a statement about the geometry of triangles, but it's hard to make a proof of it using nothing...
| | antilogicalism.com
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| There is then, on the one side, Socrates with his "knowledge" who has withdrawn into his ideal world and, on the other side, the biblical legend of the fall of the first man and the Apostle who interprets this legend by declaring that "whatsoever is not of faith is sin." The task which I have...