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bgriirtuh
4y ago
It's hard to succeed in academia if you aren't in a lineage. See Castelvecchi, D. "Majority of mathematicians hail from just 24 scientific ‘families’". Nature 537, 20–21 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038&
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bgriirtuh
4y ago
Can you provide a reference for the claim that the concept of a freely postulated axiom system was implicit in Eudoxus? I'm very curious! I assume the 19th century rediscovery you refer to was Boole, Hamilton et al and their work in lo