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In June 1983, Alexander Grothendieck sits down to write the preface to a mathematical manuscript called Pursuing Stacks . He is concerned by what he sees as a tacit disdain for the more “feminine side” of mathematics (which is related to what I’m calling the solitary creative state) in favor of the “hammer and chisel” of the finished theorem. By el... See more
Cultivating a State of Mind Where New Ideas Are Born
The secret techniques of mathematicians aim to facilitate and accelerate this intuitive understanding. Mathematicians use logic and language as an apparatus for learning to see.
David Bessis • Mathematica
The key in maths, and with maps, is to find the most appropriate level of abstraction for the given moment.
Eugenia Cheng • How to Bake Pi
Learning to write math is learning to have clear ideas. Wouldn’t it be a shame to deprive yourself of that? By writing math yourself, you’ll get to understand why it is written in such a bizarre formalism, in this language made for robots: there’s really no other choice. To demonstrate, we’ll return to another of our favorite examples: the concept
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