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Volume 80 - July 1996

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Page 6 of 9

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Articles

  • The concept of ‘rigorous proof’*

  • Jean Dieudonné
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 August 2016, pp. 204-206

  • Mathematicians of every age have been seen to criticize the proofs of their predecessors or of their contemporaries as ‘not being rigorous’; and often those which they proposed as replacements for the defective proofs were in their turn considered inadequate by the succeeding generation. This apparent repeated putting into question of mathematicians' arguments at length led some people to think these arguments contained a hidden flaw which meant that a proof could never be found unassailable by any criticism.

  • Curves and conjugacy or a tour of some interesting geometry

  • H. Martyn Cundy
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 August 2016, pp. 207-218

  • Since there is far more mathematics even quite elementary mathematics than anyone can carry in their working memory, it must follow that results which are unused will be forgotten, and are then often rediscovered after many years. A tour of some old haunts which are now being opened up again would therefore seem not out of place in a centenary number of the Gazette. Tourists, however, will need some preliminary briefing if they are to enjoy the tour fully.

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Letter

  • Correspondence

  • E. Stephens, David A. Joy, Bertha Jeffreys, Alan J. W. Thorn, John Branfield
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    01 August 2016, pp. 598-602
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Obituary

  • Paul Erdös (26 March 1913 - 20 September 1996)

  • Peter Shiu
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    01 August 2016, p. 602
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