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And so from then onwards, Daniel understood that the point of this grueling sundial project was not merely to plot the curve but to understand why eac...more

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Jack had wondered how geometers could be so inventive as to produce so many types and families of curves. Later he had come to perceive that of curves...more

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Topology is destiny,' he said, and put the drawers on. One leg at a time.

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The biggest machines, in those days, were already pushing the limits of what could be constructed on Arbre with reasonable amounts of money.""I hadn't...more

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It appeared that way, Lawrence, but this raised the question of was mathematics really true or was it just a game played with symbols? In other words—...more

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Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis, or technology. T...more

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Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be reduced to a series of mechanical operat...more

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A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.

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Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the best way to calm down a scared kid, get them to go ...more

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Juanita believes that nothing is provably true or provably false in the Bible. Because if it's provably false, then the Bible is a lie, and if it's pr...more

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Nell did not imagine that Constable Moore wanted to get into a detailed discussion of recent events, so she changed the subject. "I think I have final...more