Timeline for What advantage humans have over computers in mathematics?
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| Mar 18, 2016 at 11:11 | comment | added | Tony Huynh | Although I quite like Māris Ozols paraphrasing of my answer, I (think) was trying to say something different. Namely, that mathematics is more than just the sum of all its true theorems. If you regard math as art (which many people do), then it is impossible to separate the artist (mathematician) from the art (theorems) that he produces. The false starts, wrong turns, and even life experience of the mathematician are all part of the equation. | |
| Mar 18, 2016 at 0:02 | comment | added | Kimball | Jordan Ellenberg, in How not to be wrong, briefly speculates that whatever computers can do in the future will come to be regarded as "computation" and we will do "other math." | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 20:23 | comment | added | Robert Israel | Sure, mathematics will still be an enjoyable recreation for humans. But if you needed the solution of an actual difficult mathematical problem, you wouldn't take it to an amateur, you'd go to an expert, which in this case would be a computer. | |
| Mar 13, 2016 at 13:54 | comment | added | Saikat | I love mathematics as much as anyone but I don't think the analogy holds. Both chess and football are games we play/watch for entertainment. Yes, we could still do mathematics for entertainment but I think it would be pretty depressing since computers would know more than us. In this hypothetical world, there would be no point in looking for proofs or solutions to problems because the computers would most likely have already found multiple proofs for our problem and it's generalisations. | |
| Mar 13, 2016 at 13:32 | comment | added | dbluesk | In the long term, there could exist a suitable notion of enjoyment for computers as well.. | |
| Mar 13, 2016 at 12:44 | comment | added | Māris Ozols | To paraphrase your answer, our advantage is that we can enjoy doing mathematics while computers can't. | |
| Mar 13, 2016 at 11:33 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Mar 13, 2016 at 11:30 | history | answered | Tony Huynh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |