"You don’t get to say you’ve proved something if you haven’t explained it. \\
A proof is a social construct. If the community doesn’t understand it, \\
you haven’t done your job.” \\
-— [[http://projectwordsworth.com/the-paradox-of-the-proof/ | Cathy O’Neil on Mochizuki's impenetrable proof of the ABC conjecture
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+— [[http://projectwordsworth.com/the-paradox-of-the-proof/ | Cathy O’Neil on Mochizuki's impenetrable proof of the ABC conjecture ]]
“At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. \\
When the eclipse of 1919 confirmed my intuition, I was not in the least surprised. \\
In fact, I would have been astonished had it turned out otherwise. \\