Tag: Ian Stewart

• A book recommendation

  

  Lying in the bath this morning – relaxing into the Christmas holiday (despite the raging epidemic of omicron-variant Covid that is currently rampaging through London in an increasingly frightening manner), I had thoughts about several blog posts to write over the break, and this is the first… It’s a book recommendation: Ian Stewart‘s Concepts of […]

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  Adrian McMenamin

  December 18, 2021

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  computer science, Ian Stewart, mathematics, matrices, modular arithmetic, new maths, programming, Schools Mathematics Project, set theory, Tom Lehrer

• From “The Foundations of Mathematics”

  This is a fragment of a question from the first chapter of “The Foundations of Mathematics” (Amazon link): Record whether you think the following statements are true or false: (a) All of the numbers 2, 5, 17, 53, 97 are prime. (b) Each of the numbers 2, 5, 17, 53, 97 is prime. (c) Some […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  August 22, 2016

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  David Tall, Ian Stewart, logic, mathematics, Prime number, The Foundations of Mathematics, truth