Problems, Problems Everywhere
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Kolmogorov and Alexandrov on a trip. From CultureMath , 2022. Problems, Problems Everywhere There’s a particular kind of mathematical paper that begins with a modest goal and ends up quietly connecting half a century of ideas across logic, category theory, and the philosophy of mathematics. Today I want to talk about one of those papers. In Kolmogorov–Veloso Problems and Dialectica Categories , Samuel and I set out to understand something that sounds deceptively simple: what is a problem? Now, i