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The end of an era: Manil Suri reflects on his impending retirement after several decades as a math professor, building his reminiscences around the artifacts of his office — the paper clips, the chalkboard, the overstuffed filing cabinets. manilsuri.substack.com/p/on-saying-...

manilsuri.substack.comOn saying goodbye to my officeAnd retiring from the only job I've ever had

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@michiel-karskens.bsky.social

24 July

Professor, question about the foundation of mathematics in antiquity. To explain the Pythagorian "All is number" mathematicians give conjectures and philosophical musing as explanation. Why is "theorem" not on the list when the number theorists could prove unique prime factorisation/ the FTA?