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He does write about this in one of his books (although I've forgotten which one). He tells a story about arguing with a colleague and coming to the conclusion t
by mrestko 10y ago
He does write about this in one of his books (although I've forgotten which one). He tells a story about arguing with a colleague and coming to the conclusion that "trivial" in the context of mathematics is often used to simply mean "it is proven" not that it is necessarily trivial to arrive that the solution.
- fossuser 10y agoI just finished "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman!" this morning and it was in that one.
- lloeki 10y agoOne of my later math teachers used to joke that there were three difficulty levels for proofs in mathematics: trivial, easy, and comfy. In hindsight I believe he was right: even the toughest proofs require more of you to be comfortable with some relevant concepts than anything else.