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Seemed extremely hand-wavey to me, and the obscure pictures of 3D wireframe 'A', 'B' and 'C' by the side certainly didn't help. It tried to explain both the dy
by revelation 14y ago
Seemed extremely hand-wavey to me, and the obscure pictures of 3D wireframe 'A', 'B' and 'C' by the side certainly didn't help.
It tried to explain both the dynamics in math research and the problem at hand, and in the end explained neither.
- bstpierre 14y agoIt's the Boston Globe, hand-wavey is all they can really be expected to publish regarding hard abstract math. I thought they did a decent enough job for a newspaper.