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1 - Alex Kontorovich: Improving math

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Is Lean a Tactic?

Mathematicians get turned off by the number of steps it takes to solve a problem, he says. "If there's something deep happening, i want to understand it right" He argues that if you don't know how to do certain things, then lean is not for you....

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