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> fret not, a second computer program can assure us of its validity Formal methods are rigorous enough and mature enough to be helpful in avionics software de
by MaxBarraclough 6y ago
> fret not, a second computer program can assure us of its validity
Formal methods are rigorous enough and mature enough to be helpful in avionics software development, why not in research mathematics?
> I hope they are not building the foundations of future math on this house of cards.
Mathematics is always a house of cards, and human mathematicians will always be fallible. It's already possible for a published result to later turn out to be invalid, in turn invalidating papers that relied on it.