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groundzeros2015yesterday at 3:50 PM1 replyview on HN

The link is exactly what I’m saying. I only hear cs people talk about it.

For mathematicians a proof is a means to an end, or a medium of expression - they care about what they say and why.

The correspondence isn’t about C programs corresponding to proofs in math papers. It’s a very a specific claim about kinds of formal systems which don’t resemble how math or programming is done.


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gowldyesterday at 4:03 PM

Mathematicians care about interesting ideas, not whether their theorems are true :-)

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