Impersonating an Edwardian math professor

The Endeavour 2024-11-10

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I’ve read some math publications from around a century or so ago, and I wondered if I could pull off being a math professor if a time machine dropped me into a math department from the time. I think I’d come across as something of an autistic savant, ignorant of what contemporaries would think of […]

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11/10/2024, 12:35

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11/10/2024, 06:19