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Questions about mathematics which don't fall into the other arXiv categories. If you have a general question about mathematics but it is not research level, it's off-topic but it might be welcomed on Mathematics Stack Exchange.
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What are some examples of "chimeras" in mathematics?
The best example I can think of at the moment is Conway's surreal number system, which
combines 2-adic behavior in-the-small with $\infty$-adic behavior in the large. The surreally
simplest element …
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Where do surreal numbers come from and what do they mean?
I know about Conway's original discovery of the surreal numbers by way of games,
as well as Kruskal's way of viewing surreal numbers in terms of asymptotic behavior
of real-valued functions, leading …
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Procedure-based (as opposed to definition-based) concepts
Euler's work on divergent series was guided by computational procedures, rather than any definition of the "value" of such a series. E.g., he was happy to have half a dozen procedures that indicated …