The act of doing maths

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• Arbitrarily Close
  • Published in 2019
  • Added on 2022-10-08
• The Strong Law of Small Numbers
  • Published in 1988
  • Added on 2022-07-05
• Who's Afraid of Mathematical Diagrams?
  • Added on 2022-05-13
• How to Solve "The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever" and Its Generalization
  • Published in 2022
  • Added on 2022-02-16
• How Not to Compute a Fourier Transform
  • Published in 2020
  • Added on 2021-11-20
• Iconicity in Mathematical Notation: Commutativity and Symmetry
  • Published in 2020
  • Added on 2021-11-20
• Some instructive mathematical errors
  • Published in 2021
  • Added on 2021-08-29
• Real Analysis in Reverse
  • Published in 2012
  • Added on 2021-06-07
• An integral's journey over the real line
  • Published in 2021
  • Added on 2021-04-20
• Mathematics with a metamathematical flavour.
  • Added on 2020-10-16
• Mathematics, morally
  • Published in 2004
  • Added on 2020-10-16
• Parking Functions: Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Published in 2020
  • Added on 2020-09-21
• How long is my toilet roll? – a simple exercise in mathematical modelling
  • Published in 2013
  • Added on 2020-04-09
• The Instructor's Guide to Real Induction
  • Published in 2012
  • Added on 2019-03-02
• What is a closed-form number?
  • Published in 1998
  • Added on 2019-01-09
• Doing Math in Jest: Reflections on Useless Math, the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics, and the Ethical Obligations of Mathematicians
  • Published in 2018
  • Added on 2019-01-01
• Mathematical Writing
  • Published in 1987
  • Added on 2018-09-19
• Euclid's theorem on the infinitude of primes: a historical survey of its proofs (300 B.C.--2017) and another new proof
  • Published in 2012
  • Added on 2018-08-21
• The materiality of mathematics: presenting mathematics at the blackboard
  • Published in 2014
  • Added on 2018-04-06
• Fingerprint databases for theorems
  • Published in 2013
  • Added on 2018-02-12
• Near Miss Polyhedra
  • Published in 2002
  • Added on 2018-01-10
• Mathemagics
  • Published in 2000
  • Added on 2017-10-24
• Proof of Conway's Lost Cosmological Theorem
  • Published in 1998
  • Added on 2017-07-26
• A Handbook of Mathematical Discourse
  • Published in 2003
  • Added on 2017-06-19
• Meaning in Classical Mathematics: Is it at Odds with Intuitionism?
  • Published in 2011
  • Added on 2017-02-27
• Human Inferences about Sequences: A Minimal Transition Probability Model
  • Published in 2016
  • Added on 2017-01-09
• Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Before I Started Teaching Differential Equations
  • Published in 1997
  • Added on 2016-08-03
• What to do when the trisector comes
  • Published in 1983
  • Added on 2015-11-30
• Eponymy in Mathematical Nomenclature: What's in a Name, and What Should Be?
  • Published in 1980
  • Added on 2014-02-11
• Is POPL Mathematics or Science?
  • Published in 1992
  • Added on 2013-11-06
• Sloane's Gap: Do Mathematical and Social Factors Explain the Distribution of Numbers in the OEIS?
  • Published in 2011
  • Added on 2013-10-17
• What are some of the most ridiculous proofs in mathematics?
  • Published in 2012
  • Added on 2013-02-17
• Lectures on lost mathematics
  • Published in 2010
  • Added on 2012-05-10
• Cardinal arithmetic for skeptics
  • Published in 1992
  • Added on 2012-05-02
• A mathematician's survival guide
  • Published in 2012
  • Added on 2012-04-29
• Chalk: Materials and Concepts in Mathematics Research
  • Published in 2011
  • Added on 2011-11-01
• The experimental effectiveness of mathematical proof
  • Published in 2007
  • Added on 2011-10-30
• Scholarly communication in transition: The use of question marks in the titles of scientific articles in medicine, life sciences and physics 1966–2005
  • Published in 2009
  • Added on 2011-10-14
• The role of instrumental and relational understanding in proofs about group isomorphisms
  • Published in 2002
  • Added on 2010-09-03
• On Mathematics and Mathematicians
  • Published in 2008
  • Added on 2010-08-24