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— William Thurston"Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs."
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So in the end it wasn't Gödel, it wasn't Turing, and it wasn't my results that are making mathematics go into an experimental mathematics direction, in a quasi-empirical direction. The reason why mathematicians are changing their working habits is the computer. I think that this is an excellent joke!
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As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers?
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