Dienstag, 11. Oktober 2011

Some Commentaries on Politics

Project Syndicate features some interesting articles and commentaries about politics.

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It includes authors like Ban Ki-moon, Christine Lagarde, Javier Solana, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Martin Feldstein, Otmar Issing, Peter Singer and many more.

Montag, 10. Oktober 2011

On the (Un-)Reality of Mathematics

I stumbled upon a paper by Barry Mazur titled "Mathematical Platonism and its Opposites" which points out a few things to keep in mind when thinking about the question: Is mathematics discovered or invented?

Updates

During the last 15 months, I discovered quite some interesting things....unfortunately I didn't post anything. Some of those discoveries will be posted here in near future.