Mathematical Apocrypha
by Steven G. Krantz · first published 2002
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…work, he finally found the original paper. The lemma was stated clearly and succinctly. For the proof, the author had written, 'Exercise for the reader.' The author of this 1941 paper was Kakutani." Mathematical Apocrypha Steven Krantz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shizuo_Kakutani
on “Can computing clean up its act?” ↗unless I'm missing something large chunks were taken straight from Mathematical Apocrypha Redux : https://books.google.ca/books?id=8mBdvAjk_gQC&pg=PA155&lpg=P...
on “What were Einstein and Gödel talking about? (2005)” ↗The link to Mathematical Apocrypha does something very strange. I think it’s meant to be this: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1262199 Edit: now the link works.
on “The power of admitting ignorance” ↗The story is told by Saunders Mac Lane, quoted in the book Mathematical Apocrypha Redux: > J. von Neumann in 1927 introduced the axiomatic description of a Hilbert space, and used it in his work on quantum mechanics. There is a story of the time he came to Göttingen in 1929 to lecture…
on “Regularized Newton Method with Global $O(1/k^2)$ Convergence” ↗