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ux266478today at 2:07 PM1 replyview on HN

Rigor was never vital to mathematics. ZFC was explicitly pushed as the foundation for mathematics because Type Theory was too rigorous and demanding. I think that mathematicians are coming around to TT is a bit of funny irony lost on many. Now we just need to restore Logicism...


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moi2388today at 5:34 PM

Rigor was always vital to mathematics. That it wasn’t vital to mathematicians is exactly why we need automated proofs.