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Legend2440today at 3:34 AM1 replyview on HN

The job of a mathematician is to study mathematics, not to create proofs.

An automatic proof solver doesn't make mathematicians obsolete any more than the excel sheet made accountants obsolete.


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esafaktoday at 4:34 AM

Conjectures and proofs are the fruit of the understanding. Nobody gets paid to think without producing anything.

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