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adambyrtek
on July 1, 2010
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Ask HN: So what was Knuth's "earthshaking announce...
Fortunately mathematics is based on rigorous formal proofs rather than belief, so if he really achieved that he would just publish the proof and become even more famous.
pfarrell
on July 11, 2010
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I may have missed a joke here, but even mathematics is based on belief.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_t...
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