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Learn proofs well and you get pretty good and knowing when you’re right. Enough for almost any problem you’ll be likely to encounter in a math textbook anyway.



I strongly disagree.

It's a little like saying "learn programming well enough and you'll know if some piece of code works as expected without running it."


> "learn programming well enough and you'll know if some piece of code works as expected without running it."

That is 100% true.

Obviously the code needs to be self-contained (not calling into other unknown code) but so do mathematical proofs.


That's what seperates them both, it's not about immediate formal checking from a compiler here, but rather if our proof is being justified adequately according with the rules of deduction and reasoning, it's a more intuitive approach in math, although you do end up knowing whether something is right or wrong, akin to programs.




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