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[Edit: Measured by it's adoption in the workflows of working mathematicians, students enrolled in math classes, etc.] I have been typing up exercises from the end of chapter one of…

> keeping clocks in sync is nontrivial. masterful understatement imo

"The algebraic numbers are spotted over the plane like stars against a black sky; the dense blackness is the firmament of the transcendentals." -- E. T. Bell

"Before the Law" is an example of a Kafka story that reads like a joke / one of the jokes that Kafka wrote: http://www.kafka-online.info/before-the-law.html

"Mailer, Updike, Roth-the Great Male Narcissists* who’ve dominated postwar realist fiction are now in their senescence, and it must seem to them no coincidence that the prospect of…

A lecture series by Langlands for a lay audience: https://video.ias.edu/The-Practice-of-Mathematics The video is not great, but the content. From the summary: "In spite of forty ye…