G.H. Hardy
"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."
https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
Thursday, November 15, 2018
A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhart
G.H. Hardy
"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."
https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
Monday, November 5, 2018
Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem
Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem
https://www.quantamagazine.org/sci-fi-writer-greg-egan-and-anonymous-math-whiz-advance-permutation-problem-20181105/
https://www.quantamagazine.org/sci-fi-writer-greg-egan-and-anonymous-math-whiz-advance-permutation-problem-20181105/
"A new proof from the Australian science fiction writer Greg Egan and a 2011 proof anonymously posted online are now being hailed as significant advances on a puzzle mathematicians have been studying for at least 25 years."
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