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What is your method?
Many young, and not so young, mathematicians struggle with how to spend their time. Perhaps this is due to the 90%-10% rule for mathematical insight: 90 pages of work yield only 10 pages of useful ...
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Why are all the interesting constants so small?
A quick look at the wikipedia entry on mathematical constants suggests that the most important fundamental constants all live in the immediate neighborhood of the first few positive integers. Is ...
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Why bother with Mathematics, if Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem is true?
OK, maybe the title is exaggerated, but is it true that the rest of math is just "good enough", or a good approximation of absolute truth - like Newtonian physics compared to general relativity? How ...
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Definition of definition
I was wondering if there is a good way to "define" what definition means exactly in mathematics. Since the answers may be subjective or philosophical, I want to ask only for references on this topic. ...
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Common misconceptions about math
YARFMO (Yet another reposting from Mathoverflow) ;-)
The more you know about math the more you find conceptions previously thought correct to be false:
1.) math is not as exact as many believe - in ...
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Why some people don't like proofs by contradiction [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Are the “proofs by contradiction” weaker than other proofs?
I have been active on this site for two months and on a few occasions I noticed that some people ...
