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    #11
    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    Razzle.
    Classy.
    "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


    Thomas Jefferson

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      #12
      Originally posted by fckvwls View Post
      I tried this book too. I didn't get any further than


      "Concepts of Modern Mathematics is a 1975 book".....


      "Modern" Maths dates back from the 19th century.
      HTH
      Hard Brexit now!
      #prayfornodeal

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        #13
        English Grammar for Students of Russian.
        Cats are evil.

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          #14
          traffic signs in Swindon, argggh <BANG> <SMASH>

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            #15
            Originally posted by voodooflux View Post
            Getting a dedicated DAW Jog?
            Yeah and gaming machine
            "Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? If that is the case then we have free speech."- Elon Musk

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              #16
              Originally posted by Jog On View Post
              Yeah and gaming machine
              I did the same - might as well get the maximum bang for your buck!
              Where are we going? And what’s with this hand basket?

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                #17
                Originally posted by sasguru View Post

                "Modern" Maths dates back from the 19th century.
                HTH
                In a few respects, but mostly only in a very embryonic form.

                Most abstract algebra, measure theory (including modern probability theory), category theory, and topology, and huge areas of modern analysis and geometry, was hardly known if at all before the 1900s.

                Also, the pace of change and vast body of knowledge has grown dramatically since the 1940s, although for every problem that is solved it seems another two pop up in its place (which is a healthy sign though).
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                  #18
                  Originally posted by sasguru View Post
                  ...Concepts of Modern Mathematics by Ian Stewart (Dover Publications).

                  Superb.
                  That ought to make you a darned sight more interesting at dinner parties! Your previous championing of the contention that "Steam beats Diesel" was becoming a bit tedious and worn. Now if only you could lose the cardigans!!
                  “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by sasguru View Post

                    "Modern" Maths dates back from the 19th century.
                    HTH
                    Yes, it gives a nice perspective on truth and beauty to realise the timescale here. For example, Euclid's Elements was a textbook for two thousand years. It's still perfectly valid serious mathematics.

                    I'm reading a pice of "modern" science: Origin of Species. Never got round to it before.
                    Last edited by expat; 13 March 2009, 09:30.

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                      #20
                      The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations - suprisingly interesting




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