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October 5, 2026
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[This is a guest post by Jeremy Avigad. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] “Mathematics underwent, in the nineteenth century, a transformation so profound that it is not too much to call it a second birth of the subject—its first birth having occurred among the ancient Greeks…” Howard Stein, in “Logos, Logic, and Logistiké: Some Philosophi...