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Patrick Stevens
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Former Maths student at Cambridge (my fourth-year courses were in logic/computability/set theory and also combinatorics); now a software engineer.

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ert -- what does that mean? ("Whatever ERT is, I'm IN it!", from a physics book's chapter on inertia)
Sep 27, 2015
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Other ways to say "His English has got rusty"
Mar 21, 2021
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"a man/woman of difficult situations", does this sound idiomatic?
May 29, 2021
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You mean (like) a therapist?
Mar 30, 2022
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What do you call a place where certain ideas are prevalent?
Jun 29, 2022
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What do "value of a patent" & "the road less traveled" in following context mean?
Sep 25, 2015
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tense usage: "It has been (is) two weeks since I've seen (last saw) you"
Sep 25, 2015
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I utterly ..... your argument. In my opinion you have distorted the facts
Oct 15, 2015
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"Farther off something"
Sep 29, 2019
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The aisle seat is fine by me?
Dec 2, 2019
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Why is $1 - \frac{1}{1 - \frac{1}{1 - \ldots}}$ not real?
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Does the International Math Olympiad help research mathematics?
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Abusing mathematical notation, are these examples of abuse?
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Mathematical ideas that took long to define rigorously
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Why does Wolfram Alpha say that $\infty^\infty$ results in "complex infinity"?