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John Stillwell
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Theorems with many distinct proofs
The proof by Harnack is in Mathematische Annalen 25 (1885) pp. 241 - 250. It can indeed be viewed as a measure theory proof that the reals are uncountable, but Harnack misunderstood what he had proved. For a discussion of Harnack's mistake, see David Bressoud's A Radical Approach To Lebesgue's Theory of Integration, p. 63.
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What is the motivation for infinity category theory?
Indeed, MacLane said so himself, on p. 17 of Categories for the Working Mathematician: 'As Eilenberg-Mac Lane first observed, "category" has been defined in order to define “functor” and “functor” has been defined in order to define "natural transformation" .'
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Famous papers published in annotated form?
There is a more recent (2022) annotated version of Gödel's paper: The Annotated Gödel, by Hal Prince.
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Topology in non-mathematical literature
I think the expression is "cylinder seal" rather than "seal cylinder"; see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder_seal
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Topology in non-mathematical literature
@TimothyChow There is a painting by Tintoretto, "Triumph of Venice," which IMHO looks like a view of the 3-sphere with earth and Venice at opposite poles. (It is on Wikimedia but I can't seem to paste the URL correctly.)
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Timeline of "foundational" advances in homotopy theory?
Don't you mean 1952 for Eilenberg and Steenrod?
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