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No disrespect, but your purpose for math is entirely irrelevant unless you speak for the majority of research mathematicians.
by pavpanchekha 13y ago
No disrespect, but your purpose for math is entirely irrelevant unless you speak for the majority of research mathematicians.
- gjm11 13y agoNo disrespect, but dkural's idea of what mathematics is about is no more irrelevant than sillysaurus2's or yours, and dkural's view is quite well represented among research mathematicians, first-rate ones included. For a famous example, see William Thurston's "On proof and progress in mathematics" at http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/9404236v1.pdf http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/9404236v1.pdf .
- dkural 13y agoI have a mathematics degree from Harvard, though I haven't taken a poll of research mathematicians. I do think algorithmic theorem proving is a great field of inquiry!