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The Joy of x

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Theoretical Math Paper - Is Your Theorem Right?

Theoretical math paper usually works, right? You agree? Eye, so d you say there was one of the building stones that turned out to be a little bit wobbly or broken, or something yor or wrong. Ye, wrong. But when you scratch just underneath the surface of that and try to understand what my adviser meant by am pretty sure your theorem is right, what you realize is that am doing math is about building up lots of intuition in a very abstract area. So i think people who have a lot of experience thinking about certain kinds of theoretical objects have ways of testing the likely truth against other facts.

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