On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com>wrote:
> If no human can check a proof of a theorem, does it really count as > mathematics? > Good question, sometimes I wonder if we're getting close to that point. When Andrew Wiles proved Fermat's Last Theorem it took another world class mathematician nearly a full year to understand it and say it was correct. If I had a valid proof of the Riemann Hypothesis but would take as much brainpower for you to understand it as it took for me to write it is that really a proof, would there be any reason you should to bother to look at it? You might as well forget about me and start working on it from scratch. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
