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A family member in Tennessee, had a neighbor, an author, who once inscribed one of his books for her. Many years later, recognizing...

Robert Duvall was one of my favorite actors since appearing as Boo Radley in "To Kill a Mockingbird" when I was a child. His ability to...

Same here. I also very much enjoyed the miniseries, Lonesome Dove, in which he played Texas Ranger Captain Gus McCrae.

I like guitar but all the guitars and amps in the world cannot replace saxophones

you seem to be asking for very extreme comparisons, but in the general direction of whether a significantly smaller boxer can win, I...

How about using AI to search out bad references?

In my opinion, one can teach to anyone at any age, anything that one understands oneself. Certainly one cannot teach anything one does...

I read about it enjoyably as an 8th grader, from the Universe and Dr Einstein, by Lincoln Barnett, (given to me by my father), but...

I think there are several reasons why Rudin is so popular 1) Good and difficult problems. Sure, a lot of books have better problems. But...

@Andy Resnick : Some thoughts on the topic of post #10: https://www.math.uga.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/onteaching.pdf

This has several excellent answers and I cannot improve on them. I just have this persistent nagging voice wanting to express this...

@Surf_and_Sky: Have you talked to anyone at the U (in Salt Lake)? That is a very dynamic place, with lots of very bright people...

Re: post #5. Here is the usual proof that every set has more subsets than elements. If S is any set (e.g. the set of rational numbers)...