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Logic, in a certain sense, is man’s attempt to transform the search for truth into a calculation, which transforms one statement into another, until arriving at the final result.
But what is a true statement? It’s a seemingly easy question, but it hides a series of traps that you need to be careful about. There are sentences that are not statements, statements that are true only in certain contexts, or that are definitely not true, or that only express someone’s opinion, or that say too little to understand what is being talked about…
Mathematicians have always faced a problem: how to build a theory correctly? Usually they start from one or more premises, apply a series of passages, and reach a conclusion. Understanding how to guarantee the correctness of this procedure is not easy, and has occupied scholars for centuries, to the point of giving birth to a real discipline of study: the logic.
In the history of Mathematics, especially in past centuries, when exchanging information through large distances was more difficult, a curious phenomenon happened: different scientists, independently of one other, get to the same discovery. One...
A species of cicada that lives in North America, the magicicada, had a peculiar evolutionary path, in which prime numbers played a fundamental role for survival. So, how can prime numbers give help to...
Did you ever ask yourselves why an hour is made up of 60 minutes? The practical reasons of this choice are very ancient: the idea was adopted by Babylonians about 4000 years ago. But,...
