Timeline for How to present mathematics to non-mathematicians?
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| Dec 12, 2010 at 2:06 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | I found the source of the quote again! It's from Mumford's foreword to Parikh's The unreal life of Oscar Zariski: "Everyone knows that physicists are concerned with the laws of the universe and have the audacity sometimes to think they have discovered the choices God made when He created the universe in thus and such a pattern. Mathematicians are even more audacious. What they feel they discover are the laws that God Himself could not avoid having to follow." | |
| Nov 25, 2010 at 12:18 | comment | added | Martin Brandenburg | 1+! I think Ramsey numbers are indeed very interesting and vivid especially for non-mathematicians. | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 23:35 | comment | added | Nick Salter | +1 for "marriage-theoretic terminology" :) | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 23:09 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | @David: That works! | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 22:37 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | @Qiaochu - changed it. How is it now? We wouldn't want people getting the wrong idea that there are trivial open problems still out there ;-) | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 22:37 | history | edited | David Roberts♦ | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
changed 'easy open problem' sentence
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| Nov 24, 2010 at 19:50 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | Hmm. So of course when I say "easiest open problem I know how to state" I mean "this open problem is easier to state than any others I know" but I can't find a way to word this that isn't awkward. | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 18:54 | comment | added | Max | Ok, fixed: you can use %27 to escape the apostrophes. | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 18:53 | history | edited | Max | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
fixed apostrophes
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| Nov 24, 2010 at 17:40 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | The links don't appear properly if I add in the apostrophes. I'm not sure how to escape them. | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 15:57 | comment | added | Max | Both the links are missing apostrophes. I can't fix it because (it seems) I don't have enough reputation to put links in answers. | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 15:56 | history | edited | Max | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
oops, I can't put links into answers
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| Nov 24, 2010 at 14:44 | history | answered | Qiaochu Yuan | CC BY-SA 2.5 |