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How human mathematicians decide that a problem is "important" is not as arbitrary as people seem to think. The work mathematicians choose to do can be heavily i
by tvural 11y ago
How human mathematicians decide that a problem is "important" is not as arbitrary as people seem to think. The work mathematicians choose to do can be heavily influenced by fashion, but in general, a problem is important if its solution would give insight into many other important, unsolved problems. Given this definition, it wouldn't be difficult to get the computer's definition of an interesting problem to align with ours.