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Headline is of course absurd hyperbole that does not belong here. > "I think there is a non-zero chance that some of our great castles are built on sand," Buzz
by gowld 7y ago
Headline is of course absurd hyperbole that does not belong here.
> "I think there is a non-zero chance that some of our great castles are built on sand," Buzzard wrote in a slide presentation. "But I think it's small."
- mirimir 7y agoYes, the title ought to be changed. At least, "all" to "some". But he does note: > This overreliance on the elders leads to a brittleness in the understanding of truth. A proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, proposed in 1637 and once considered by the Guinness Book of World Records to be the world's "most difficult math problem," was published in the 1990s. Buzzard posits that no one actually completely understands it, or knows whether it's true.
- kurlberg 7y agoWell, they also quote him as saying: "I’m suddenly concerned that all of published math is wrong because mathematicians are not checking the details, and I’ve seen them wrong before,”
- kevinzz 7y agohttps://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2019/09/27/does-anyone-know-a-proof-of-fermats-last-theorem/ https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2019/09/27/does-anyone-kno...