"Making sure absolutely every ambiguity is eliminated from a mathematical proof is perfectionism." Oh, I don't know about that. Mathematicians obsess over the

"Making sure absolutely every ambiguity is eliminated from a mathematical proof is perfectionism." Oh, I don't know about that. Mathematicians obsess over the "beauty" of a proof as much as hackers/programmers obsess over the "beauty" of their code. For some proving it the ugly way is insufficient.