Timeline for Colloquial catchy statements encoding serious mathematics
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| Sep 17, 2014 at 15:13 | comment | added | Lennart Meier | It is a bit like: Assume there were no proofs by contradiction.... | |
| Jul 6, 2012 at 4:37 | comment | added | Noam D. Elkies | Assume there was no empty set. Consider the set of all empty sets, ... [seen years ago in Martin Gardner; not sure of the original source] | |
| May 9, 2011 at 9:09 | comment | added | Zsbán Ambrus | I don't understand the distinction between the empty set and other sets here. If mathematicians construct sets from other sets, then they could construct the empty set from other sets as well. | |
| May 8, 2011 at 22:03 | history | answered | Michael Renardy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |