Monthly Archives: June 2008

Visualising 19th Century Reading in Australia

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

A description of a visualisation of some 19th century Australian borrowing records from the Australian Common Readers Project.

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Constructive and Classical Mathematics

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

I have a (very) amateur interest in the philosophy of mathematics. My interest was recently piqued again after finishing the very readable “Introducing Philosophy of Mathematics” by Michèle Friend. Since then, I’ve been a lot more aware of terms like “constructivist”, “realist”, and “formalist” as they apply to mathematics.

Today, I was flicking through the entry [...]

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