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| | | | | [This post is dedicated to Luca Trevisan, who recently passed away due to cancer. Though far from his most significant contribution to the field, I would like to mention that, as with most of my ot... | |
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| | | | | This post assumes working knowledge of elementary number theory. Luckily for the non-mathematicians, we cover all required knowledge and notation in our number theory primer. So Three Thousand Years of Number Theory Wasn't Pointless It's often tough to come up with concrete applications of pure mathematics. In fact, before computers came along mathematics was used mostly for navigation, astronomy, and war. In the real world it almost always coincided with the physical sciences. | |
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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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| | | Moving house again... Well almost, moving addresses anyway. It wasn't that long ago I moved from Disease of the Week to here at Disease Pron... | ||