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Brian M. Scott
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Professor emeritus at Cleveland State University. I’m a set-theoretic and general topologist with an interest in combinatorics. I’m also interested in linguistics, especially historical linguistics.

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Does $\pi$ contain all possible number combinations?
Oct 18, 2012
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Find five positive integers whose reciprocals sum to $1$
Jan 30, 2013
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Are half of all numbers odd?
Jan 23, 2012
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If $x$, $y$, $x+y$, and $x-y$ are prime numbers, what is their sum?
Dec 4, 2012
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Any open subset of $\Bbb R$ is a countable union of disjoint open intervals
Mar 2, 2013
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Intuition on group homomorphisms
Nov 22, 2012
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How to respond to "solve this equation" in a basic algebra class
Jul 16, 2013
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$X$ is Hausdorff if and only if the diagonal of $X\times X$ is closed
Apr 25, 2012
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Is "The empty set is a subset of any set" a convention?
Oct 4, 2016
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How do we know that Cantor's diagonalization isn't creating a different decimal of the same number?
Jan 12, 2017
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