Beauty And Mathematics | Professor Alexander Pruss
The Thomistic Institute
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The Importance of Proofs of Gravity
There's like these proofs sometimes don't really give you an insight into why the thing is true. Sometimes they might be actually short but you still feel like you don't know why it's true. I mean I feel like a kind of a bit like that about the proof that there infinitely many prime numbers. The proof's beautiful. It's a nice trick. But what you kind of want and we don't have are procedures where you have one prime number you give me the next. If we had that and we kind of really understand why there are infinitely manyprime numbers. Maybe I don't know. We're so early on the sign that revolutions only got run up for like 200 years
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