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In [[mathematics]], '''1 − 2 + 3 − 4 + …''' is the [[Series (mathematics)#Infinite series|infinite series]] whose terms are the successive [[negativ ...-18th century, [[Leonhard Euler]] wrote what he admitted to be a [[List of paradoxes#Mathematical and statistical|paradoxical equation]]: ...

...], which has become a [[foundations of mathematics|fundamental theory]] in mathematics. Cantor established the importance of [[one-to-one correspondence]] between ....''</ref> Writing decades after Cantor's death, Wittgenstein lamented that mathematics is "ridden through and through with the pernicious idioms of set theory," w ...

...ions ''0.999…'' and ''1'' represent the same real number. This [[Equality (mathematics)|equality]] has long been accepted by professional mathematicians and taugh ...ied to better understand patterns in the decimal expansions of [[fraction (mathematics)|fraction]]s and the structure of a simple [[fractal]], the [[Cantor set]]. ...

...''n'' approaches infinity, the probability ''X''_''n'' [[limit (mathematics)|approaches]] zero; that is, by making ''n'' large enough, ''X''<sub>''n''< ...me chapters translated into the language spoken by the [[Garamantes]], the paradoxes Berkeley invented concerning Time but didn't publish, Urizen's books of iro ...

...letters including close to 1,000 signed by Ph.D.s, many on letterheads of mathematics and science departments, declaring that her solution was wrong ([[#refTiern ...ning doors must each be one in two. After a reader wrote in to correct the mathematics of Adams' analysis, Adams agreed that mathematically, he had been wrong, bu ...

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...munication - and they are unable or unwilling to make the attempt. Human [[mathematics]], [[language]], [[tool]] use, and other concepts and communicative capacit [[Category:Physical paradoxes]] ...