List of Unsolved Problems in Mathematics

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“I made a list of things I have
to remember and a list
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but I see they are the same list.”
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“A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.”
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“The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.”
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