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watching the movie Ivanhoe today I was interested in the height of the famous fall off the castle by the great stuntman Paddy Ryan...

I think your new book is probably a good choice.

yes they meant what you said. however this is a strange definition, as property 3 follows from property 2, so is not needed. The book...

the fact that the natural numbers contain an infinite number of disjoint infinite subsets, implies for the arithmetic of infinite...

or, forgive me, maybe gently discuss it with her; after all, its another chance to spread the word, and that is what teaching is of course.

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