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The senior title comes first -- Prof. Dr. Dr. Honorary doctorates are "honoris causa", abbreviated h.c. If you get multiple of these, you write Dr. h.c. mult. So you occasionally f…

Thanks for the data.

As far as I can tell, o1 is the best model for anything to do with mathematics, by a solid margin.

Please read it again, carefully. Hamkin is not trying to convince anyone of accepting CH.

I think it's a bit like PG Wodehouse. The world of Bertie Wooster or Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth is certainly an idyll; at the same time no one would pretend it is a …

Neither Poincare nor Lorentz are relevant to the genesis of General Relativity. The only relevant priority dispute is whether Einstein or Hilbert wrote down the correct field equat…

Since you provide a zoological metaphor, let me offer an alternative. Category theory is much more like Goethe's work on the /Urpflanze/ (primeval plant). Linné had developed a way…

I think if you use gears, it would be well to know some Newtonian mechanics. The material structure might not be relevant, but in mathematics you also don't need to go down to the …

I have some sympathy for this sentiment, and there is no doubt that the producers of mathematics could and probably should spend more time making life easier for the users and cons…

Hayek himself used the term "neo-liberal" to describe the "movement" of liberalism to which he belonged [0]. The historian Quinn Slobodian [1] advocates using the term "neoliberal"…

Henry Green, Graham Greene, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Anthony Powell. But the review is from just a week after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, so Orwell is referring to wartime fiction…