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Rigorous mathematics

What is rigorous mathematics? Jaffe and Quinn have some ideas, which I re-interpret a little. Continue reading

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Does anyone “know” a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem?

So there’s a piece in Vice which quotes me as saying that I fear “all published maths is wrong”. Of course this is nonsense: indeed, as every mathematician knows, some published maths is wrong, but the vast majority of it … Continue reading

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