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History and philosophy of mathematics, biographies of mathematicians, mathematics education, recreational mathematics, communication of mathematics.
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The meaning of this mysterious remark in Littlewood's Miscellany
In the well known book by Littlewood (Mathematician's Miscellany, or the later edition called Littlewood's Miscellany) there is a remark made in the chapter 'A Mathematical education', the meaning of …
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Does Arnold say that Hardy is responsible for Ramanujan's untimely death? [closed]
Vladimir Arnold in his book Yesterday and Long Ago, Springer (2007) writes:
When I resided at Cambridge as a senior fellow of Trinity College,
Indian colleagues told me some details of Ramanujan …
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Why does Arnold put Hardy on the same level as Bourbakists?
In the preface to his book "Lectures On Partial Differential Equations" Arnold writes:
The effort to destroy this unnecessary scholastic pseudoscience is a natural and proper reaction of society) to …
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What aspects of math olympiads do you find still useful in your math research?
I was rereading the book Littlewood's Miscellany and this passage struck me:
It used to be said that the discipline in 'manipulative skill' bore
later fruit in original work. I should deny this …