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What is worthy of investigation? Philosophical attitudes and their impact on mathematical development by the example of discovering 10-adic numbers
Merlin Carl, Michael Schmitz
We describe in dialogue form a possible way of discovering and investigating 10-adic numbers starting from the naive question about a `largest natural number'. Among the topics we…
math.CO2021★ 1 cited
Maximal antichains of subsets II: Constructions
Jerrold R. Griggs, Thomas Kalinowski, Uwe Leck +2
This is the second in a sequence of three papers investigating the question for which positive integers there exists a maximal antichain of size in the Boolean lattice $B_n…
math.CO2021★ 6 cited
The saturation spectrum for antichains of subsets
Jerrold R. Griggs, Thomas Kalinowski, Uwe Leck +2
Extending a classical theorem of Sperner, we characterize the integers such that there exists a maximal antichain of size in the Boolean lattice , that is, the power s…