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Patrick Stevens
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Former Maths student at Cambridge (my fourth-year courses were in logic/computability/set theory and also combinatorics); now a software engineer.

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Why is $1 - \frac{1}{1 - \frac{1}{1 - \ldots}}$ not real?
Mar 3, 2016
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What is lost when we move from reals to complex numbers?
Apr 8, 2018
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Abusing mathematical notation, are these examples of abuse?
Nov 5, 2017
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Mathematical ideas that took long to define rigorously
Feb 3, 2018
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Why does Wolfram Alpha say that $\infty^\infty$ results in "complex infinity"?
Dec 31, 2016
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Intuitive explanation for why $\left(1-\frac1n\right)^n \to \frac1e$
Apr 5, 2016
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What is the exact difficulty in defining a point in Euclidean geometry?
Aug 9, 2016
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True or false: {{∅}} ⊂ {∅,{∅}}
Aug 24, 2015
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Correct set notation for "all integers which are not multiples of 7"?
Mar 3, 2016
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Mathematical notation $\max$ with simple example for non-mathematician
May 17, 2017
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Does the International Math Olympiad help research mathematics?
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How far back in time would Maths be understandable to a modern mathematician?
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Do I hear a cat?
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Are financial markets "unique" for each "currency pair", or are they simply "translated"?
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Mathematica cannot seem to properly handle times in the 1 hour before clocks go back

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