More grist for my conjecture that: “for all n, there is a low-entropy predicate p such that p(k) is true for all k < n, but p(n) is false”:https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2018/09/20/patterns-that-eventually-fail/ …
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When I first learned the story of Skewes’ number (possibly from Derb’s book about the Riemann Hypothesis?) I nearly fell off my chair from the shock.
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That’s a great book — I gave my copy to a Korean girl I was tutoring a few years ago, felt a little like samizdat
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I remember reading it and being like “this can’t possibly be by the same guy...” and then it turned out it was.
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Between that and _The Bell Curve_ my parents inadvertently introduced me to a lot of right-wing thinkers just because I liked math
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I’ve never actually read TBC, but somehow when I was in elementary school Michael Shermer’s hysterical denunciation of it fell into my hands, so I was well prepared for 2017.
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