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What is it that is done when we DO mathematics?
I want to understand more deeply and philosophically what exactly mathematicians do.
Wikipedia
lists some major subareas like analysis, geometry but ends its lead paragraph with
There is no general ...
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Who said, "a parliament with no opposition should be dissolved"?
I've found a reference in a Jewish text from the mid-19th century to a "gentile sage" (an expression usually referring to a Greek philosopher, but it could be any non-Jewish person really) who said ...
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