Tag Archives: Combinatorics

“What we’ve got here is (a) failure to communicate” • 6

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Excerpt from Warren S. McCulloch, “What Is a Number, that a Man May Know It, and a Man, that He May Know a Number?” (1960) Please remember that we are not now concerned with the physics and chemistry, the anatomy … Continue reading →

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Riffs and Rotes • 2

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peter Cameron • Addition and Multiplication of Natural Numbers The interaction between addition and multiplication in the natural numbers has long been an interest of mine, leading to broader questions about the relationship between algebra and combinatorics.  My gropings … Continue reading →

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Riffs and Rotes • 1

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Richard J. Lipton • Making Primes More Random There’s a study called generalized primes which investigates in a more general way the relationship between arbitrary elements called primes and the composites which can be formed from them according to … Continue reading →

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