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Patrick Stevens
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Former Maths student at Cambridge (my fourth-year courses were in logic/computability/set theory and also combinatorics); now a software engineer.

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How far back in time would Maths be understandable to a modern mathematician?
Aug 10, 2016
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How do I ensure that two characters survive the black death without making them naturally immune?
May 16, 2020
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How would computers work if the number zero wasn't invented?
Jan 22, 2022
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How would computers work if the number zero wasn't invented?
Jan 22, 2022
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How can defeating lesser monsters grant more magical power compared to more difficult ones?
May 31, 2020
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What would cause magic spells to be irreversible?
Feb 25, 2021
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Why would witches be incapable of using wands?
May 17, 2020
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A mathematical problem that no computer can solve, but a human can
Dec 31, 2021
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Why is $1 - \frac{1}{1 - \frac{1}{1 - \ldots}}$ not real?
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Does the International Math Olympiad help research mathematics?
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Abusing mathematical notation, are these examples of abuse?
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Mathematical ideas that took long to define rigorously
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Why does Wolfram Alpha say that $\infty^\infty$ results in "complex infinity"?

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