When I was a kid, I used to believe that mathematics was all about knowing the rules and following them perfectly (which at least, unlike in other endeavours, was possible), and about carefully planning your strategy to attack and vanquish given problems, and that a good mathematician would be one who would primarily think like that. In terms of ( Read more... )

There is no experimental science whatsoever where there is no experiment ( Read more... )

Mon ami Bernhard m'envoie un lien vers un article prétendant dénoncer le prix de l'anarchie par des modèles mathématiques.

Cet article est tellement faux que j'ai du mal à imaginer comment ( Read more... )

Suppose some causal relationship ( Read more... )

When I was in the Boston subway, I saw the following advertisement on the red line, saying that Math is CoolThe next day, the advertisement was gone ( Read more... )

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Everyone having studied science has met Fibonacci numbers somewhere or another in his curriculum ( Read more... )