Faulty logic in the new Math Wars skirmish

JUNE 19, 2013. Mathematicians love puzzling about self-referential statements such as “This sentence is false” (ask yourself if it is true or false and see what happens), and analyzing them has led to significant insights in the way mathematics is used to model real world phenomena. But I suspect the authors of a recent New … Continue reading Faulty logic in the new Math Wars skirmish