Timeline for answer to What should be the intuition when working with compactness? by Qiaochu Yuan
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| Sep 15, 2024 at 11:13 | comment | added | Clemens Bartholdy | MO related, 2 | |
| Jul 25, 2022 at 2:03 | comment | added | Clemens Bartholdy | Maybe a historical prespective will help future readers | |
| Nov 22, 2014 at 19:36 | comment | added | Relative0 | Friggin' Awesome analogy Quaochu! Does anyone happen to know of any books that try to describe these various mathematical concepts in analogies? Perhaps a little like "Godel Escher Bach"? | |
| May 6, 2013 at 19:52 | vote | accept | Gold | ||
| Apr 28, 2013 at 7:36 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | @MJD: no, but thanks for sharing the reference! | |
| Apr 25, 2013 at 2:51 | comment | added | MJD | Are you familiar with the Raymond Smullyan thought experiment about the world in which all spheres are red and all cubes are green, and the discomfiture of the person who sees a green sphere and has to try to explain that he has seen an object that is both spherical and cubical? (Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies, page 79) | |
| Apr 24, 2013 at 22:23 | history | answered | Qiaochu Yuan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |