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Re:Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] by yunwal on Monday October 12, 2026 @09:58PM (#50065638)
This is absolutely not true. The reason nearly every mathematician believes the Riemann hypothesis is true is because out of zillions of discovered non-trivial zeros, so far 100% have been located at (0.5, <prime>). If we had only discovered 3 such points, nobody would give it much credence.
Re:Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] by juvvel on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:50AM (#50068628)
There is a difference between formulating a hypothesis based on observations and treating it as true. As I understood it, things that are not proven yet will not be used to formally prove other things.