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I've generally found the opposite. Polemically, a true mathematician can write theorems where every single proof is riddled with errors (actual errors, not just "typos") but all results, building upon each other, are still true; a true physicist can tell you what the result of a calculation will be even if they are unable to actually do the calculation.

Maybe you would call that "a mathematician's/physicist's intuition", rather than "human"?



Related, Terry Tao's blogpost on the development of mathematical intuition: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/theres-more-to-...




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