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gowldyesterday at 4:03 PM1 replyview on HN

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


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groundzeros2015yesterday at 4:28 PM

They care about if it’s true. But the role of the formal proof is a kind of spell checker or static analysis after they have the idea.

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