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Meaning to Please

  • For Our Mathematical Pleasure
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Notes

  1. My qualifications for defining mathematics are dangerously thin. I’m skeptical of truth, unreliable about knowledge, and of dubious (mathematical) morality. My strongest suit is existence.

  2. “Beauty Is Not All There Is to Aesthetics of Mathematics,” Philosophia Mathematica, 13 September 2016

  3. He called the puzzles “number place” puzzles. It was the Japanese magazine Nikoli that called them sudoku and that’s where they subsequently took off.

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This is a column about the mathematical structures that give us pleasure. Usefulness is irrelevant. Significance, depth, even truth are optional. If something appears in this column, it’s because it’s intriguing, or lovely, or just fun. Moreover, it is so intended.

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Henle, J. Meaning to Please. Math Intelligencer 40, 68–72 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-018-9780-z

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