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| | | | | A new way to write mathematics Vladimir Voevodsky won the Fields Medal in 2002 for his work on homotopy theory of algebraic varieties. Using his pioneering methods he proved, among many other things, a deep conjecture of John Milnor, that had been open for decades. Today I want to talk about, no, rant about, a... | |
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| | | | | This post is a follow-up on some somewhat off-hand comments that I made earlier regarding the notion of truth in a "proof-based" discipline such as pure mathematics or theoretical computer science. Since the former is easier to circumscribe and also has a larger literature available on it, for the purposes of the post I will... | |
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| | | | | Number theorist Andrew Granville on what mathematics really is - and why objectivity is never quite within reach. | |
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| | | Recommending a few books which touch on aspects of the Manhattan Project: The Last Man who Knew Everything: the life and times of Enrico Fermi - David Schwartz Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves - Robert S Norris The Maniac - Benjamin Labatut The Last Man who Knew Everything is a historical and scientific biography of Enrico Fermi. We learn about Fermi, his work, and best of all we hear the story of the world's first self-sustaining nuclear reaction under the University of Chicago. | ||
