Cats have four legs. Dogs have four legs. So obviously, all animals have four legs. Try out that reasoning on a kid, says mathematician Dan Finkel, to introduce them to the concept of mathematical ...
A great deal of attention has been paid recently to the claim that traditional Frankfurt-type counterexamples to the Principle of Alternative Possibilities (PAP), which depend for their success on the ...
The Monthly publishes articles, as well as notes and other features, about mathematics and the profession. Its readers span a broad spectrum of mathematical interests, and include professional ...
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