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by pnin 1y ago
The senior title comes first -- Prof. Dr. Dr. Honorary doctorates are "honoris causa", abbreviated h.c. If you get multiple of these, you write Dr. h.c. mult. So you occasionally find Prof Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. X (would have been the
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by pnin 2y ago
Thanks for the data.
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by pnin 2y ago
As far as I can tell, o1 is the best model for anything to do with mathematics, by a solid margin.
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by pnin 2y ago
Please read it again, carefully. Hamkin is not trying to convince anyone of accepting CH.
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by pnin 2y ago
I think it's a bit like PG Wodehouse. The world of Bertie Wooster or Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth is certainly an idyll; at the same time no one would pretend it is a classless idyll. Tolkien would not refer to that class
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by pnin 3y ago
Neither Poincare nor Lorentz are relevant to the genesis of General Relativity. The only relevant priority dispute is whether Einstein or Hilbert wrote down the correct field equations first. This was after a long correspondence between the
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by pnin 3y ago
Since you provide a zoological metaphor, let me offer an alternative. Category theory is much more like Goethe's work on the /Urpflanze/ (primeval plant). Linné had developed a way of systematically naming species of plants,
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by pnin 5y ago
I think if you use gears, it would be well to know some Newtonian mechanics. The material structure might not be relevant, but in mathematics you also don't need to go down to the foundational level for every problem. You don't ne
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by pnin 5y ago
I have some sympathy for this sentiment, and there is no doubt that the producers of mathematics could and probably should spend more time making life easier for the users and consumers of mathematics. This is true even /within/ t
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by pnin 5y ago
Hayek himself used the term "neo-liberal" to describe the "movement" of liberalism to which he belonged [0]. The historian Quinn Slobodian [1] advocates using the term "neoliberal" for the intellectual history
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by pnin 6y ago
Henry Green, Graham Greene, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Anthony Powell. But the review is from just a week after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, so Orwell is referring to wartime fiction rather than postwar fiction.