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Re:Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of... by nickcw on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @04:41PM (#37921292)
In case you are looking for the essay on the = sign, this is what Google Bard said:

The reference to the essay by Andrey Kolmogorov in the paragraph you provided is:

Kolmogorov, A. N. (1930). О понятии числа [On the concept of number]. Matematicheskiy sbornik, 38(3), 3-19.

This essay is in Russian, but an English translation is available in the book "Selected works of A. N. Kolmogorov, Volume I: Mathematics and mechanics" (1991).

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Re:Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of... by lsedgwick on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @04:55PM (#37921437)
Do you think it's true? I got my hands on the pdf see no trace of it in table of contents or text searches.
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Re:Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of... by nickcw on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @05:25PM (#37921794)
A good question. I've found Bard to be quite good at this type of question in the past but maybe it has hallucinated the answer!
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Re:Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of... by crawfordcomeaux on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @05:48PM (#37922070)
Could it be the author isn't Kolmogorov, but Kronecker?
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Re:Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of... by lexh on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @05:58PM (#37922182) 

  > Perhaps it is the article On Sense and Reference by Gottlob Frege?
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  > http://www.scu.edu.tw/philos/98class/Peng/05.pdf
from previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18895613
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Re:Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of... by dkural on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @06:25PM (#37922430)
ChatGPT thinks it might be Paul Lockhart's essay, titled "A Mathematician's Lament".
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