Penyngton

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by Penyngton 5y ago
Richard Guy said that he "began to think of [himself] as possibly being something of a research mathematician" after meeting Erdos in his 40s, although he did get degrees in mathematics when he was younger. He went on to publish
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by Penyngton 5y ago
Maybe it would be topical to use a "herd immunity" argument. We all need to have privacy to protect those who are vulnerable as it's impossible to only protect the "at risk" people.
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by Penyngton 5y ago
Thanks for your reply. I'll definitely send you an e-mail in the near future!
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by Penyngton 5y ago
As a mathematics PhD student, I wish there were some way to practise my writing independently of my supervisor, like the Code Review Stack Exchange but for proofs (and definitions)! I suppose the community would be small, and perhaps people
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by Penyngton 5y ago
I'm not sure if this quite matches your request (I suppose much hinges on the word "important"), but here's a story of a fairly famous and long-standing error: https://www.jamesrmeyer.com/ffgit/godel
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by Penyngton 5y ago
I like doing courses in French on < https://www.fun-mooc.fr/fr/ >. They have courses to learn French, but also on many other subjects.
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by Penyngton 5y ago
Yes, certainly things like corruption, jealousy and ego games do exist in pure maths, but I just wanted to contest the other comment's assertion that pure mathematics is completely closed to outsiders, let alone ones who could resolve
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by Penyngton 5y ago
That's not my experience at all. To be fair, I've never solved the Riemann Hypothesis, but in my experience it is possible to find professional academic mathematicians who were willing to meet me (as an outsider) to discuss their
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by Penyngton 6y ago
Here < https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/8/219606-the-science-of-... > is an article about a computer-generated proof of a combinatorial problem in number theory. Although you could characterise the pr