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Re:In Search of Proofs from “The Book” by yantrams on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @12:29PM (#16630058)
Brilliant book that. The way he explains how a polished rigorous proof hides the process(compared with frontend and kitchen views of a restaurant) by which a mathematician has arrived at it changed my perception of how mathematics is done.

I notice the same phenomena in programming too. The final piece of code that works doesn't reflect all the failed attempts at solving a problem. This is why I tend to not delete/clear cells at all from my jupyter notebooks. :) It is always informative/fun to refer to them at a later point in time to relive that problem solving experience.

PS: In case you haven't, you should try Proofs and Refutations by Lakatos.

Edit: Fixed name of the book mentioned and added some text.

Re:In Search of Proofs from “The Book” by jacobolus on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @01:35PM (#16630709)
A big portion of Lakatos’s book is online, https://math.berkeley.edu/~kpmann/Lakatos.pdf
Re:In Search of Proofs from “The Book” by ggm on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @12:34PM (#16630116)
Do you mean "proof and refutations" ?
Re:In Search of Proofs from “The Book” by yantrams on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @12:39PM (#16630183)
Ah yes, thanks for correcting me :)