Timeline for Most harmful heuristic?
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| Sep 10, 2014 at 15:13 | comment | added | Manuel Bärenz | Especially a lot of the intuition is communicated orally and informally. And it is impossible to do mathematics without having an intuition about what you're doing. | |
| Nov 14, 2013 at 21:52 | comment | added | Tim Campion | I disagree with the disagree-ers. Sure, this answer is a little more "meta" than the question likely intended, but not overwhelmingly so: if we take "a heuristic in math" to mean "a rule of thumb for how to prove things in math", then this answer is arguably on target, even though it is more methodological and less domain-specific. Besides, I think it's an important message to have out there, a realization that every mathematician will have to come to in order to be successful. Even though it's not the sort of issue you'll find discussed in papers :). | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 22:56 | comment | added | darij grinberg | Sorry but I disagree. There is so much buried knowledge in the unread works of the past that I wouldn't be surprised if it surpasses the knowledge of currently living mathematicians. Take into account that many authors forget their own papers after a couple of decades... | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 20:52 | comment | added | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez | This has nothing to do with heuristics, whatsoever! | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 19:42 | history | answered | Kevin Teh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |