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I'm always surprised to see higher level mathematics on the front page here considering I doubt the majority of the people upvoting this would understand much o
by mjreacher 4y ago
I'm always surprised to see higher level mathematics on the front page here considering I doubt the majority of the people upvoting this would understand much of it, nevertheless given the state of how the average person views mathematics I guess more popularization can't be a bad thing regardless.
On the topic of document, quite a few times I've seen mathematicians say work on theorem provers and the sort are a waste of time and there's nothing to be learnt and blah blah blah and I think this is an excellent example of why this isn't the case. Kevin found a deficiency in his knowledge in algebraic geometry and upon spending some time on it related it to some wider topics in the foundations of mathematics (the notion of equality between set theory and homotopy type theory, for example see https://mathoverflow.net/questions/263024/does-equality-between-sets-contradict-the-philosophy-behind-structural-set-theor https://mathoverflow.net/questions/263024/does-equality-betw...). I would think there are many other things that we will discover that have been otherwise assumed or taken for granted when more mathematics is formalized by theorem provers and other tools.
- guerrilla 4y ago> I doubt the majority of the people upvoting this would understand much of it It only has 62 upvotes and there are already 16 competent comments here.
- mjreacher 4y agoBased on my own experience running forums that aggregate content I have tended to find that a specific group of people vote on content based on what they like and think looks interesting rather than having a situation where people only vote on topics they are competent in.
- layer8 4y agoSupporting your point: I sometimes upvote submissions because I want to see more discussion on them, for my own educational benefit. Really, a rational upvoter will upvote for the purpose of giving the submission higher visibility, to either promote awareness of the topic or of the existing discussion, or to engender more discussion. Neither reason necessarily correlates with agreement or understanding of the topic.
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