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What natural language properties are supported by these categorical axioms?
I find it difficult to see a concise description of all the Categorical structures one needs to support each of the features we see in Natural Language. This work was largely covered by Coecke and ...
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Looking for a BAMS text about the group with commutation relations defined using meaningful words
What I definitely remember is that I saw a description of the following in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, sometime in eighties (or maybe nineties?)
One considers the group ...
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Average number of distinguished leaves in a binary tree
By a binary tree, I mean in this question a full rooted binary tree in which left and right child are labeled. A leaf of such a tree is a vertex of degree at most 1 (most references would probably ...
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Looking for a collection of entry level proofs
Hi all,
I am looking to do some linguistic analysis of informal proofs. Therefore I am on a search for a collection of entry level proofs written in a clear, uninvolved style. I have one ...
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Predicting if something is a code
I'm trying to help a non-mathematical friend by posting a question of his here. He studies literature and has come across a book which is written in a made-up language. The book is hundreds of pages,...