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This was definitely something I saw on HN, but for what it's worth, in my conversations that night with other mathematicians no one brought up Lean proofs or pe
by nicf 2mo ago
This was definitely something I saw on HN, but for what it's worth, in my conversations that night with other mathematicians no one brought up Lean proofs or peer review even as a joke. We just copied and pasted the polynomials into a computer algebra system and checked it ourselves and then said "holy shit, I guess the Jacobian conjecture is false". Couldn't have taken more than five minutes after we first saw the tweet.
- tptacek 2mo agoRight, that's what was so funny about it. Finding a counterexample: an incredible mathematical achievement. Verifying a counterexample: barely even a weeknight homework problem in an undergraduate multivariable course.