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TYI44: “What Then, To Raise an Old Question, is Mathematics?”

Posted on March 26, 2020 by

“The argument is carried out not in mathematical symbols but in ordinary English, there is no obscure or technical terms. Knowledge of calculus is not presupposed. In fact, one hardly need to know how to count. Yet any mathematician will … Continue reading →

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The Golden Room and the Golden Mountain

Posted on June 27, 2008 by

  Christine Björner’s words at the Stockholm Festive Combinatorics are now available to all our readers. What makes this moving and interesting, beyond the intimate context of the conference, is our (mathematician’s) struggle (and usually repeated failures) to explain to … Continue reading →

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