MW: I ended the last post with a puzzle. Here it is again, in more detail.
Author Archives: Michael Weiss
Nonstandard Models of Arithmetic 27
MW: Enayat’s second major result is:
Theorem 7: Every countable recursively saturated model of PA+ΦT is a T-standard model of PA.
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Very Unique
My unique (but not very unique) microwave
Everyone has their pet peeves, and peeves about language abound. My pet peeve is with people who object that “very unique” is illogical. For example, this pithy statement:
Uniqueness is a binary condition. Something is unique or it is not. There are no degrees of uniqueness. Something cannot be partly unique, mostly unique, very unique, etc.
Selections from the History of Astronomy
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Armillary Sphere, Facade of Santa Maria Novella (Wikimedia Commons)
Another post from the History Book Club, this time based on three books:
- To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science, by Steven Weinberg.
- The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories, by J.L. Heilbron.
- The Composition of Kepler’s Astronomia Nova, by James Voelkel.
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Nonstandard Models of Arithmetic 26
MW: Continuing the recap… Continue reading
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Nonstandard Models of Arithmetic 25
MW: It’s been ages since John Baez and I discussed Enayat’s paper—not since October 2020! John has since moved on to fresh woods and pastures new. I’ve been reading novels. But I feel I owe it to our millions of readers to finish the tale, so here goes.
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The Secret History of the Mongols
National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Another post from the History Book Club.
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Science and the Founding Fathers
Another post from the History Book Club. It seemed particularly appropriate for today (January 20th, Inauguration Day).
Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and James Madison,
by I. Bernard Cohen, W.W. Norton & Company, 1995.
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Cornflakes and Bonti Knives
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Diagonal Argument 