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Book that shows a construction of ZFC with Calculus of Constructions
Is there any book that teaches the basics of Type Theory and Calculus of Inductive Constructions (CIC) and also shows a construction of ZFC (or preferably NBG) in CIC?
I only found the paper "...
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A book about mathematical drawing on the blackboard
Several years ago, when I was just starting undergrad, I ran across an instructional text on chalking beautiful mathematical diagrams while killing time in the college library. In my infinite wisdom, ...
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Books containing new results
In Endless controversy about the correctness of significant papers, Denis Serre writes:
The research community is able to point out incorrect statements, at least among those which have some ...
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Springer GTM Series statement of purpose (early editions)
Earlier editions of the Springer Graduate Texts in Mathematics series include a motivating statement about the purpose of the series. The current statement of purpose is as follows:
Graduate Texts ...
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What to do with a collection of theoretical math books?
My father had a Ph.D. in mathematics. He was a consummate mathematician and enjoyed reading about all topics related to math. He passed away a couple of years ago. I have yet to find a suitable place ...
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Exposition of Grothendieck's mathematics
As Wikipedia says:
In Grothendieck's retrospective Récoltes et Semailles, he identified twelve of his contributions which he believed qualified as "great ideas". In chronological order, ...
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Books/References for Inequalities that take advantage of orders
Are there any good references/papers/books that specifically address inequalities that take advantage of orders or monotonicity? I have already browsed through the classical Cauchy-Schwarz Master ...
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Latest "A Term of Commutative Algebra" by Altman and Kleiman? [closed]
Where can I find the latest revision of A term of Commutative Algebra by Allen B. ALTMAN and Steven L. KLEIMAN? Is my 2013 version ok?
It is hard to locate the latest one; many old revisions and ...
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What is the point of reading classics over modern treatments?
There seems to be a good number of mathematicians who recommend reading "classic" works in a given field (where the term "classic" is in the sense defined below). Indeed, there are ...
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How to buy Spivak's A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry
This sounds a bit stupid, but how can I buy Spivak's A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry (the third edition)? It does not seem to be available on Amazon (at least most of it is not ...
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What are your opinions on Zeidler's QFT books? [closed]
I am interested in mathematically rigorous treatment of quantum field theory, constructive QFT in particular.
I have read 'QFT, A Tourist Guide for Mathematicians' and am going to read "Quantum ...
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Book on Rigorous Renormalization
Many years ago I came across Salmhofer's Renormalization book and I studied its first chapter for a while. At the time, a professor told me the aim of the book was to develop a perturbative fermionic ...
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Quirky, non-rigorous, yet inspiring, literature in mathematics
In contrast with such lucid, pedagogical, inspiring books such as Visualizing Complex Analysis by Needham and Introduction to Applied Mathematics by Strang, I've had the pleasure of coming across the ...
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Adding something to a book from an unpublished paper
As many of the people that I am spamming in real life might at this point know, I am turning my coend note into a book.
I would like to add a few pages taken from a (still) unpublished paper of mine (...
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Good "casual" advanced math books
I'm curious if there are any good math books out there that take a "casual approach" to higher level topics. I'm very interested in advanced math, but have lost the time as of late to study textbooks ...