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		<title>Comment on The Axiom of Choice is Wrong by Adib Ben Jebara</title>
		<link>http://cornellmath.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/the-axiom-of-choice-is-wrong/#comment-3074</link>
		<dc:creator>Adib Ben Jebara</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My previous web site became innaccessible after an attack.
See my web page
where I apply the negation of the axiom of choice to physics and philosophy.
Adib Ben Jebara.
adib.jebara at topnet.tn</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My previous web site became innaccessible after an attack.<br />
See my web page<br />
where I apply the negation of the axiom of choice to physics and philosophy.<br />
Adib Ben Jebara.<br />
adib.jebara at topnet.tn</p>
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		<title>Comment on Non-nonstandard Calculus, I by Alessio</title>
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		<dc:creator>Alessio</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Folks, here is the "true" about the way to make pratical calculus, for Year when I'm at the University, the teacher tell me, "You cannoit semplify" the derivates, but in any kind of calculation they use the derivate as Fraction ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Folks, here is the &#8220;true&#8221; about the way to make pratical calculus, for Year when I&#8217;m at the University, the teacher tell me, &#8220;You cannoit semplify&#8221; the derivates, but in any kind of calculation they use the derivate as Fraction <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /></p>
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		<title>Comment on Two Cute Proofs of the Isoperimetric Inequality by gcd calculator!</title>
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		<dc:creator>gcd calculator!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi! I programmed an attractive online calculator that find the greatest common divisor(GCD) between two numbers. I will be happy, if you add the link in your blog. I hope that you and your visitors will enjoy!  
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi! I programmed an attractive online calculator that find the greatest common divisor(GCD) between two numbers. I will be happy, if you add the link in your blog. I hope that you and your visitors will enjoy!<br />
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<a href="http://gcd.awardspace.com" rel="nofollow">http://gcd.awardspace.com</a><br />
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bye!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Two Cute Proofs of the Isoperimetric Inequality by Aaron F.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Aaron F.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I like the first proof a lot! It's the first pure-mathematical application of Fourier decomposition that I've seen.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like the first proof a lot! It&#8217;s the first pure-mathematical application of Fourier decomposition that I&#8217;ve seen.</p>
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		<title>Comment on The Axiom of Choice is Wrong by eliza</title>
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		<dc:creator>eliza</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hello!  ist cool ...is chido me encanta de jonas brothers son fabulosos sobre todo nick jonas es un bue...esta requete bueno...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hello!  ist cool &#8230;is chido me encanta de jonas brothers son fabulosos sobre todo nick jonas es un bue&#8230;esta requete bueno&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Comment on Non-nonstandard Calculus, I by Michael O'Connor</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael O'Connor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 02:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You're right, of course.  I should have mentioned the models in my summary.  

My reasoning for not doing so is that if one were to teach calculus via SIA, one would do so axiomatically and not via the models, just like we teach math majors to reason axiomatically in ZFC before we teach them (if we ever do) how to construct models of ZFC with set-theoretic forcing.

However, for people who are not learning calculus for the first time, learning how SIA works by going through the construction of the models may be the most enlightening way to do it.  It could certainly help a classical mathematician who may be suspicious of or not fully understand intuitionistic logic to figure out what exactly is going on.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re right, of course.  I should have mentioned the models in my summary.  </p>
<p>My reasoning for not doing so is that if one were to teach calculus via SIA, one would do so axiomatically and not via the models, just like we teach math majors to reason axiomatically in ZFC before we teach them (if we ever do) how to construct models of ZFC with set-theoretic forcing.</p>
<p>However, for people who are not learning calculus for the first time, learning how SIA works by going through the construction of the models may be the most enlightening way to do it.  It could certainly help a classical mathematician who may be suspicious of or not fully understand intuitionistic logic to figure out what exactly is going on.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Non-nonstandard Calculus, I by Todd Trimble</title>
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		<dc:creator>Todd Trimble</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 22:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I fear that some of the above comments may be slightly misleading. The objects that SIA deals with do not reside merely at the level of axiomatic description; they may be embodied in models which admit explicit constructions by taking categories of sheaves on appropriate sites. Externally speaking, one uses ordinary logic to describe these sites. It is of course true that the "internal logic" in such sheaf toposes is intuitionistic (meaning that lattices of subobjects of objects are not Boolean algebras; they are Heyting algebras), and it is in that sense that the inclination to manipulate the relevant objects directly as "smooth sets" must take intuitionistic logic into account.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I fear that some of the above comments may be slightly misleading. The objects that SIA deals with do not reside merely at the level of axiomatic description; they may be embodied in models which admit explicit constructions by taking categories of sheaves on appropriate sites. Externally speaking, one uses ordinary logic to describe these sites. It is of course true that the &#8220;internal logic&#8221; in such sheaf toposes is intuitionistic (meaning that lattices of subobjects of objects are not Boolean algebras; they are Heyting algebras), and it is in that sense that the inclination to manipulate the relevant objects directly as &#8220;smooth sets&#8221; must take intuitionistic logic into account.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Non-nonstandard Calculus, I by Michael O'Connor</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael O'Connor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 03:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I recently wrote up some notes on Smooth Infinitesimal Analysis, the system for which the immediately preceding commenter is an aggressive advocate. 

They're at:
http://www.math.cornell.edu/~oconnor/sia.pdf

The biggest contrast between Smooth Infinitesimal Analysis and Matt's system (and non-standard analysis as well) is that while in both Matt's system and non-standard analysis the object representing reals+infinitesimals is explicitly constructed and can be manipulated directly with the usual classical logic that mathematicians are used to, in Smooth Infinitesimal Analysis, the object representing reals+infinitesimals is presented axiomatically, and you must reason about it using intuitionistic logic in order to make the existence of infinitesimals consistent.

It sounds forbidding, but you can do a lot of pretty neat things with it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently wrote up some notes on Smooth Infinitesimal Analysis, the system for which the immediately preceding commenter is an aggressive advocate. </p>
<p>They&#8217;re at:<br />
<a href="http://www.math.cornell.edu/~oconnor/sia.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.math.cornell.edu/~oconnor/sia.pdf</a></p>
<p>The biggest contrast between Smooth Infinitesimal Analysis and Matt&#8217;s system (and non-standard analysis as well) is that while in both Matt&#8217;s system and non-standard analysis the object representing reals+infinitesimals is explicitly constructed and can be manipulated directly with the usual classical logic that mathematicians are used to, in Smooth Infinitesimal Analysis, the object representing reals+infinitesimals is presented axiomatically, and you must reason about it using intuitionistic logic in order to make the existence of infinitesimals consistent.</p>
<p>It sounds forbidding, but you can do a lot of pretty neat things with it.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Bad Talk Bingo: Brainstorming by Stefan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stefan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>At PhDcomics they did a variant applicable to most science talks:

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=847</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At PhDcomics they did a variant applicable to most science talks:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=847" rel="nofollow">http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=847</a></p>
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		<title>Comment on Rational Homotopy Theory by Allen Knutson</title>
		<link>http://cornellmath.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/rational-homotopy-theory/#comment-3034</link>
		<dc:creator>Allen Knutson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 19:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;is the Chow ring of a flag variety the same as its integral cohomology ring?&lt;/i&gt;

I think so; any cycle is equivalent to a B-invariant one, hence to a sum of Schubert cycles. So that handles the groups. Then via Kleiman-Bertini, the product of cycles is going to work the same thought of topologically or intersection-theoretically.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>is the Chow ring of a flag variety the same as its integral cohomology ring?</i></p>
<p>I think so; any cycle is equivalent to a B-invariant one, hence to a sum of Schubert cycles. So that handles the groups. Then via Kleiman-Bertini, the product of cycles is going to work the same thought of topologically or intersection-theoretically.</p>
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