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Some simple arithmetic... - Newton's Principia: Translation, Beneath the Surface
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| | This blog is dedicated to the memory of the singular John Machin, professor of astronomy at Gresham College. He calculated to 100 places of decimals, and, in The Principia, Newton quotes in full an article by Machin on the motion of the nodes of the moon. Cajouri, in his revision of Motte's translation of...
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Materialism and Cantor's higher infinities (transcript of talk) -
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| | Are Cantor's higher infinities really real?
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A Fictional History of Numbers, Part 3: Computability, Reality, and Leaving Well Enough Alone.
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| | This week we continue our exploration of what numbers are, and where mathematicians keep finding weird ones. Last time we defined the real numbers, but it took a lot of work. Now we'll see how truly strange they are. They're so strange that it's tempting to avoid them and stick with something simpler. But the real numbers do a much better job of describing modeling the parts of the world we care about. Their weirdness is exactly what we need to guarantee that a bunch of
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Functional foundations ยท Henrik Jernevad
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| A selection of functional programming concepts that I feel are helpful to all developers.