Timeline for Is rigour just a ritual that most mathematicians wish to get rid of if they could?
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| Apr 8, 2023 at 8:09 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
http -> https (the question was bumped anyway)
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| Mar 23, 2023 at 14:55 | comment | added | Andrés E. Caicedo | @Monroe :-) This was a few years ago, and these things change, but my impression was simply that there was a reasonable web of conjectures and partial results that strongly suggested matters go a certain way. | |
| Mar 23, 2023 at 14:29 | comment | added | Monroe Eskew | @AndrésE.Caicedo Does he claim to just “see” it? | |
| May 3, 2013 at 21:35 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | Does he say things like "the negation of CH is true"? :-P | |
| May 3, 2013 at 18:33 | comment | added | Andrés E. Caicedo | When talking informally, Woodin sometimes tells you that such and such is true. If this is the first time he does that with you, he may stop at some point and clarify: "Note that I said that it is true, not that we have a proof." | |
| May 3, 2013 at 14:44 | comment | added | Margaret Friedland | Attributed to Paul Dirac: ``I don't care about the proof, tell me whether it's true or not." I cannot verify the source at the moment, though. | |
| May 3, 2013 at 13:47 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | Thanks to John Stillwell for providing a fuller quotation -- the final words are something that most mathematicians would agree with. And while he exaggerates when he says "all physicists", he's right that many (most?) physicists have such attitudes, perhaps even moreso in his day. | |
| May 3, 2013 at 3:40 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | I don't agree with Hardy, but just wanted to provide some talking point. | |
| May 3, 2013 at 3:21 | comment | added | John Stillwell | But Hardy goes on to say "I have heard Professor Eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no one who is really certain that he has found something good should waste his time looking for proof.... [This opinion], with which I am sure that almost all physicists agree at the bottom of their hearts, is one to which a mathematician ought to have some reply." | |
| May 3, 2013 at 2:12 | history | answered | David Roberts♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |