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		<title>About metamathematical statements in a recent post by Timothy Gowers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 06:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This is a comment about this post by Professor Timothy Gowers, in a series for mathematical undergraduates he has started there.). I was delighted to rediscover several distinctions about mathematical discourse in ordinary english I usually do not keep consciously in mind when writing. But you write in the first part: &#8220;Here are a few [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ogerard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13137638&amp;post=214&amp;subd=ogerard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mathematical acids</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 09:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just learned there is an abscisic acid as well as a phaseic acid . A pity these plant hormones are not simple substances you could give to students of analytical geometry to make them understand theorems and concepts better. Filed under: Other<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ogerard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13137638&amp;post=210&amp;subd=ogerard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Correlating Composers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you use one of the newest Google tools, Google Correlate, you can look at typical associations between keywords based on the geographical search pattern. Here is an example for classical music , looking for debussy and getting liszt : The list of correlated terms is not really surprising: 0.8860 liszt 0.8473 tchaikovsky 0.8251 g minor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ogerard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13137638&amp;post=200&amp;subd=ogerard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Science and the seasons</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 08:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made a little Google Trend request, here is a snapshot: What is striking is the seasonality. People look up science-related terms when they feel compelled to do so, when classes are going to start or restart (September, the very end of December, before going back to school, trying to find a private tutor, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ogerard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13137638&amp;post=154&amp;subd=ogerard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>new Music Question and Answer site from StackExchange</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 12:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After one week of private beta started April 27, the new music.stackexchange.com has been launched. The goal is to have a place where serious questions about music (instrumental technique, music theory, performance, practice, health, maintenance, instrument making, composition &#8230;) can be asked and answered by musicians. This is free, anyone can join, even anonymously. Take some time to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ogerard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13137638&amp;post=186&amp;subd=ogerard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the first I time about a fanfiction, but this one is certainly worth it. Its size and quality has been already recognized by many readers and has suscited more than 12000 reviews.  The first chapters were published in February this year (2010). EDIT 2011/06/01: there are now 72 chapters. Harry Potter and the Methods [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ogerard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13137638&amp;post=204&amp;subd=ogerard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Phase set under the compass or Fractal Genesis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 17:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Am I the only one to find this earth being created under the compass out of chaos looking a lot like a Mandelbrot Set M ? The image of God using a compass is famous (see for instance the much later William Blake) but this one is curious by the image of the world. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ogerard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13137638&amp;post=134&amp;subd=ogerard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mathematician out of his shell</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 17:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This work by William Blake could suggest that the mathematician and its mathematics emerge from geological sediments, old life fossilized, crystals and stones, through a geometrical body, allegorically as perfect as his theorems, and reminiscent of the Renaissance artists such as Leonardo da Vinci associations between perfect body proportions, art, architecture and the Universe. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ogerard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13137638&amp;post=132&amp;subd=ogerard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>algebra, abstraction and Marcel Proust</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 10:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this passage, after having received a letter from Albertine, the narrator makes a comparison between the abstraction that mail, faces, even bodies represent of the thoughts of people we know and the ideal thought we have of them, with the successive abstractions that in mathematics arise from objects to number sums and from numerical expressions to algebraic ones.

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As one does not find anymore in the letters of algebra the determinate values of the figures of arithmetic, themselves already removed from the qualities of the fruits and flowers being summed.</blockquote>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to have personal webpages, opinion pages, archived scientific and philosophic correspondence, even blogs on the web on various periods but most of them are now unreachable, deleted or non editable. This forms what I use to call volume XVI of my collected works (volume XIV being notes taken during seminars and lectures). All [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ogerard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13137638&amp;post=57&amp;subd=ogerard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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