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solving $f(f(x))=g(x)$
This question is of course inspired by the question How to solve f(f(x))=cosx
and Joel David Hamkins' answer, which somehow gives a formal trick for solving equations of the form $f(f(x))=g(x)$ on a b …
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Is "all categorical reasoning formally contradictory"?
Note: I am not a historian. I'm just guessing as to what prompted the comments.
Here's my guess: if you do set theory naively, in the old-fashioned "anything is a set" way, then you run into Russell' …
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Does anyone still seriously doubt the consistency of $ZFC$?
For decades I was not particularly suspicious about the consistency of ZFC but I was rather surprised about how it had become the standard choice when it contained axioms such as Replacement, which se …
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What makes dependent type theory more suitable than set theory for proof assistants?
I still find it very surprising that this random talk I gave attracts so much attention, especially as not everything I said was very well thought out. I am more than happy to engage with people in di …
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Most 'unintuitive' application of the Axiom of Choice?
The fact that there exist non-measurable sets is highly counter-intuitive; the reason we don't find it so is that we've all been conditioned from day 1 to do measure theory very carefully, and define …
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Find a "natural" group that contains the quotient of the infinite symmetric group by the alt...
Let $A$ denote the subgroup of $S_\infty$ consisting of permutations that only move finitely many elements, and have even signature. Then $A$ is a normal subgroup of $S_\infty$, and the quotient $S_\i …
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Are inclusions "canonical" injections?
[Background: I asked a vague question the other day, but as a result of the answers, particularly Andrej Bauer's, I now have a precise question]
Summary of question: the inclusions are a particularly …
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Can Tychonoff's theorem be applied to topological spaces generated by program output in ZFC?
I am confused about an issue in set theory.
Tychonoff's theorem says that "an arbitrary product of compact topological spaces is compact". We often talk of an index set $I$ and then for each $n\in I$ …