Re:In Search of Proofs from “The Book”
by montrose on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:15PM
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This is an interesting point:
"To do these short and surprising proofs, you need a lot of confidence. And one way to get the confidence is if you know the thing is true. If you know that something is true because so-and-so proved it, then you might also dare to say, "What would be the really nice and short and elegant way to establish this?" So, I think, in that sense, the ugly proofs have their role."
"To do these short and surprising proofs, you need a lot of confidence. And one way to get the confidence is if you know the thing is true. If you know that something is true because so-and-so proved it, then you might also dare to say, "What would be the really nice and short and elegant way to establish this?" So, I think, in that sense, the ugly proofs have their role."