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Plenty of mathematics is ugly. Just look at optimal packing. People like to focus on the elegant parts.
by Jarmsy 3y ago
Plenty of mathematics is ugly. Just look at optimal packing. People like to focus on the elegant parts.
- gus_massa 3y agoA lot of the ugly part of math is hidden inside lemas and theorems, so the main part of the proof can be hopefully straightforward. Anyway, I agree that people like to focus on the elegant parts. Math popularization materials have too much kawaii math.
- GuB-42 3y agoA notorious "ugly" proof is that of the 4-color theorem. It has been proven using a computer. The problem was first reduced to a few hundred cases, then a brute force algorithm was used to solve each case.