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jhanschooyesterday at 4:06 PM0 repliesview on HN

There are areas of mathematics where the standard proofs are very interesting and require insight, often new statements and definitions and theorems for their sake, but the theorems and definitions are banal. For an extreme example, consider Fermat's Last Theorem.

Note on the other hand that proving standard properties of many computer programs are frequently just tedious and should be automated.