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There are numerous branches of mathematics, from arithmetic, geometry and algebra at an elementary level to more advanced fields like number theory, topology and complex analysis. Each branch has its own distinct set of axioms, or fundamental assumptions, from which theorems are derived by logical processes. While each branch has its own flavour, character and...
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How to convince someone your proof is really a proof Roger Apéry was a mathematician who solved a beautiful problem that had been open for hundreds of years. He was not an amateur in any sense, but because his result was so surprising there was initial doubt about its correctness. Even professional mathematicians have some...
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Today is the 10th anniversary of the death of Martin Gardner. His books on mathematics had a huge influence on me as a teenager, and I'm a fan of his writing on magic as well, but it was only last year that I branched out into reading some of his essays on philosophy, economics, religion,...
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How to tune hyperparameters for your machine learning model using Bayesian optimization.
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