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- The language and grammar of mathematics [pdf] https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/grammar.pdf 2 comments
- The Two Cultures of Mathematics (2000) [pdf] https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/2cultures.pdf 69 comments
- In Praise of Lectures (2004) [pdf] https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~twk/Lecture.pdf 8 comments
- A Tutorial on Countable Ordinals (2010) [pdf] https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~tf/fundamentalsequence.pdf 4 comments
- The existence of the square root of two (2001) https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/roottwo.html 30 comments
- In Praise of Lectures (2004) [pdf] https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~twk/Lecture.pdf 5 comments
- The Two Cultures of Mathematics (2000) [pdf] https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/2cultures.pdf 28 comments
- Timothy Gowers on mathematical implication http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/implication.html 39 comments
- What is so wrong with thinking of real numbers as infinite decimals? http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/decimals.html 15 comments
- Why study finite-dimensional vector spaces in the abstract? http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/vspaces.html 7 comments
- "Problem Solvers" vs "Theory Developers": The Two Cultures of Mathematics. [pdf] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/2cultures.pdf 5 comments
- Discussions of miscellaneous mathematical topics. http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/mathsindex.html 2 comments
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- The Two Cultures of Mathematics https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/2cultures.pdf 5 comments math , pdf
- History of maths resources https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~pb112/ 7 comments math
- TIL Sir Timothy Gowers has created a web-page containing some delightful articles regarding the intuition behind the solution of the cubic, Heine-Borel theorem, countable ordinals, Fermat's little theorem and many more fundamental and interesting topics. https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/mathsindex.html 5 comments math
- (Gowers) Why isn't it obvious that a regular dodecahedron exists? https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/dodecahedron.html 23 comments math
- The existence of the square root of two. https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/roottwo.html 16 comments math
- "A term of length 4,523,659,424,929" [pdf] https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~ardm/inefff.pdf 11 comments math
- The Two Cultures of Mathematics, by W. T. Gowers [pdf] https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/2cultures.pdf 19 comments math
- "The ignorance of Bourbaki" [pdf] https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~ardm/bourbaki.pdf 6 comments math
- How to lose your fear of tensor products - Tim Gowers http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/tensors3.html 25 comments math
- In Praise of Lectures http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~twk/lecture.pdf 18 comments math
- Open Letter from Leading UK Mathematicians to Prime Minister Cameron about the risk of a "Mediocre Future" for Maths in Great Britain (PDF) http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~bt219/pm22.pdf 28 comments math
- UK government cuts ALL funding for postdoctoral researchers in pure math - in fact, any math apart from applied probability and statistics http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~bt219/epsrc.html 142 comments math
- The Importance of Mathematics: interesting speech (transcribed) by Tim Gowers [PDF] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/importance.pdf 3 comments math
- Just picked up the next set of exercises for my Logic and Set Theory course. Check out question 7... http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/site2002/teaching/ii/logic/2009-2010/logic2010-3.pdf 49 comments math
- "Imagine that you did not know any advanced mathematics (if you actually don't, then that is fine) and were confronted by somebody who denied the existence of the square root of two. What would you say? The conversation might go something like this." (Tim Gowers) http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/roottwo.html 90 comments math
- Why do we need the real numbers? http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/reals.html 16 comments math
- Discussions of miscellaneous mathematical topics http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/mathsindex.html 3 comments math