Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 377, No. 2140, Theme issue: The notion of ‘simple proof’ - Hilbert’s 24th problem (11 March 2019), pp. 1-11 (11 pages) ...

Georg Cantor's 1870 theorem that an everywhere convergent to zero trigonometric series has all its coefficients equal to zero is given a new proof. The new proof uses the first formal integral of the ...

I have a mathematical tattoo on my left forearm. It’s in Frege’s notation (from “Grundgesetze der Arithmetik”), which was one of the first modern logical notations. If it were written on a flat ...

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