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New Math Chalk Talk: The Game of Infinity Questions

I have a new math chalk talk up: The Game of Infinity Questions. This is back to establishing the “reasonableness” of Kolmogorov’s Axiom of continuity (in his actual formulation of his axiomatization of probability). Remember, his argument is “it is a bit off to have strong opinions on infinite processes, […]

Estimated reading time: 1 minute

The Dual Numbers

We introduce the dual numbers, a number system that is simple to calculate with that allows us to perform automatic differentiation. For more on the dual number please see: https://win-vector.com/tag/dual-numbers/. (link)

Estimated reading time: 23 seconds

New Math Chalk Talk: The Real Numbers

I have a new math chalk talk to share: “The Real Numbers.” Here I go into some of the terrifying true nature of our common model for continuous quantities. (link)

Estimated reading time: 20 seconds