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Re:Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjec... by mrob on Friday September 21, 2018 @04:07AM (#18038005)
Human mathematicians are bound by Gödel's theorem in exactly the same way computer software is. If an informal human-based "proof" does something that would be impossible with a formal software-based proof, then it's incorrect. There is no theoretical advantage to running the calculations on a human brain.
Re:Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjec... by Angostura on Monday September 24, 2018 @06:35AM (#18056499)
Sorry, I didn’t intend to suggest that running a proof on wetware had advantages. Simply that running complete, from first principal proofs were doomed to failure