Perhaps you are thinking of the 1927 Solvay Conference? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solvay_conference_1927.jp...
wow. thank you.
Also Edgar Anderson's "Plants, Man, and Life" on a similar theme.
that's a pretty fun read.
Mint :(
This book is not really addressing the more common "is math real" question of it being empirical or invented. For an interesting take on that question, see the 1st section of the 2nd part of Daniel Shanks' Solved and…
$62 to access the paper
some of us still make calotypes https://www.flickr.com/groups/1384661@N22/
This could be a big deal if the new vaccines work well, especially if they work well in older people. Hope for the best.
I've also been roasting coffee from Sweet Maria's for many years, and the thing that's useful is that I learned how Tom will describe flavors that I like. So, whether he calls it "hazelnut" or "almond" doesn't matter,…
good comment. This seems to come up more in number theory than in foundations/philosophy of mathematics, but I agree is has an important place. Not just triangles, but natural numbers having a fundamental place in…
There was a paper a few years ago in the American Mathematical Monthly ( sorry... can't remember the author, I think it was a Russian mathematician ) that gave some interesting heuristics for why this form is natural to…
If you've got enough math background to follow it, Harold Edwards' Riemann's Zeta Function is a gem of a book and available inexpensively from Dover. There is an English translation of Riemann's paper at the end of the…
Agreed. Interesting point about Bayesian methods, whenever there are potential flaws or additional uncertainty, it's better if they are more explicit to prompt thoughtful interpretation.
Yes, okay. There are implicit assumptions in scientific studies ( e.g.: there are no invisible elephants, or the study we are doing is actually related to the question we are investigating! ). Power calculations refer…
This is why we report statistical power. It does in fact put probabalistic limits on the size of the elephant. In effect, we can make a statement like "at least 90% of studies like ours will detect an elephant larger…
Agree Feller is excellent. I don't think it has much in the way of prerequisites and comes at probability from a solid "fundamental understanding" POV. Volume 2 is more difficult but also very good. Don't forget that…
If you mean Hardy and Wright's Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, I agree it is excellent, but you can solve the great majority of the project Euler problems without going to quite that level. I particularly enjoyed…
For a different take on this, see Dan Shanks' "The case for pythagoreanism" starting on pg. 130 in his classic text Solved and Unsolved Problems in Number Theory:…
If it's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well.
And bumblebees
Exactly. This is the reason I keep an old laptop with MS Word running for myself. Fix this and I could go 100% LO.
If you are responding to my comment, I agree with you. I like the R language very much and use it. I may not have said what I meant well enough. What I mean is that there is a tendency with R programmers and much more…
I've spent my career thinking about these same issues. And certainly Fisher was, well, abrasive to put it mildly. I've read much of his early work and I think the intended context has mostly been lost. Many modern…
Interesting, thanks. ( Like your username too, despite him being slightly denigrated in the linked article. ) I personally think that it is good to have a basic grounding in some kind of fundamental "real" programming…
Perhaps you are thinking of the 1927 Solvay Conference? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solvay_conference_1927.jp...
wow. thank you.
Also Edgar Anderson's "Plants, Man, and Life" on a similar theme.
that's a pretty fun read.
Mint :(
This book is not really addressing the more common "is math real" question of it being empirical or invented. For an interesting take on that question, see the 1st section of the 2nd part of Daniel Shanks' Solved and…
$62 to access the paper
some of us still make calotypes https://www.flickr.com/groups/1384661@N22/
This could be a big deal if the new vaccines work well, especially if they work well in older people. Hope for the best.
I've also been roasting coffee from Sweet Maria's for many years, and the thing that's useful is that I learned how Tom will describe flavors that I like. So, whether he calls it "hazelnut" or "almond" doesn't matter,…
good comment. This seems to come up more in number theory than in foundations/philosophy of mathematics, but I agree is has an important place. Not just triangles, but natural numbers having a fundamental place in…
There was a paper a few years ago in the American Mathematical Monthly ( sorry... can't remember the author, I think it was a Russian mathematician ) that gave some interesting heuristics for why this form is natural to…
If you've got enough math background to follow it, Harold Edwards' Riemann's Zeta Function is a gem of a book and available inexpensively from Dover. There is an English translation of Riemann's paper at the end of the…
Agreed. Interesting point about Bayesian methods, whenever there are potential flaws or additional uncertainty, it's better if they are more explicit to prompt thoughtful interpretation.
Yes, okay. There are implicit assumptions in scientific studies ( e.g.: there are no invisible elephants, or the study we are doing is actually related to the question we are investigating! ). Power calculations refer…
This is why we report statistical power. It does in fact put probabalistic limits on the size of the elephant. In effect, we can make a statement like "at least 90% of studies like ours will detect an elephant larger…
Agree Feller is excellent. I don't think it has much in the way of prerequisites and comes at probability from a solid "fundamental understanding" POV. Volume 2 is more difficult but also very good. Don't forget that…
If you mean Hardy and Wright's Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, I agree it is excellent, but you can solve the great majority of the project Euler problems without going to quite that level. I particularly enjoyed…
For a different take on this, see Dan Shanks' "The case for pythagoreanism" starting on pg. 130 in his classic text Solved and Unsolved Problems in Number Theory:…
If it's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well.
And bumblebees
Exactly. This is the reason I keep an old laptop with MS Word running for myself. Fix this and I could go 100% LO.
If you are responding to my comment, I agree with you. I like the R language very much and use it. I may not have said what I meant well enough. What I mean is that there is a tendency with R programmers and much more…
I've spent my career thinking about these same issues. And certainly Fisher was, well, abrasive to put it mildly. I've read much of his early work and I think the intended context has mostly been lost. Many modern…
Interesting, thanks. ( Like your username too, despite him being slightly denigrated in the linked article. ) I personally think that it is good to have a basic grounding in some kind of fundamental "real" programming…