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Meta- and Galois
First, some extradiegetic comments. I did not post much last year. The main reason is obvious – for the first half of the year, I was very busy finishing the proof of the ternary Goldbach conjecture; then, during the summer, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1830, duelling, E. T. Bell, Ecole Polytechnique, emic and etic, Evariste Galois, Finland, Leopold Infeld, oral exam, Romanticism, Tony Rothman, trois glorieuses
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The Kalevala, the Cyberiad, Gödel and Tarski
I recently spent eight days in Finland, at the provocatively named Arctic Number Theory School, which even had some penguins in its poster. (Needless to say, the conference took place well South of the Arctic circle, and there are no … Continue reading
