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mattbaker.blog
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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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www.quantamagazine.org
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| | | | | A team of mathematicians has solved an important question about how solutions to polynomial equations relate to sophisticated geometric objects called Shimura | |
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rjlipton.com
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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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selfawarepatterns.com
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| | | Nicolas Rouleau and Michael Levin have a new preprint out: Brains and Where Else? Mapping Theories of Consciousness to Unconventional Embodiments. The gist of the paper is that we should be open to seeing consciousness in places other than brains. While I'm onboard with that general premise, they take it to places that don't seem... | ||