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Things mathematics has taught me
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Things mathematics has taught me
2004-11-07 by
qntm
These are specifically things which mathematics has taught me which have applications outside the field of mathematics... there's a whole lot of much more boring stuff.
- That there are such things as unanswerable questions - indeed, provably unanswerable questions
- That Occam's Razor is fallible
- To assume nothing
- That the word "obvious" means "a proof springs immediately to mind"
- The importance of proof
- How to reason logically
- To reason logically
- How to recognise faulty reasoning and find counterexamples
- That intuition counts for zilch
- Point nine recurring equals one
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