Mathematicians
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A Phenomenology of Ideology, Part 4 December 14, 2022
After five years of graduate study, I finally found myself teaching in a small liberal arts college on the Chesapeake Bay. The St. John’s program is a mostly all-required curriculum in which students and faculty move through classes on language, his...
Paper Belt on Fire December 02, 2022
At a conference at the Sorbonne in August of 1900, the great mathematician David Hilbert challenged his peers to attack twenty-three unsolved problems in the field. It was a bold move to open a new epoch, but owing to his commanding authority—he was ...
