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How Do Mathematicians Know Their Proofs Are Correct?

The Joy of Why

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qat is a podcast from quanta magazine that takes you into some of the biggest unanswered questions in math and science to day. In this episode, we're going to be talking about evidence in mathematics. What k of evidence do mathematicians use? What leads them to suspect something might be true before they have water tight proof? We'll be focusing here on prime numbers.

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