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Wikipedia-size maths proof too big for humans to check

20-2-2014 < Red Ice Creations 430 67 words
 

If no human can check a proof of a theorem, does it really count as mathematics? That’s the intriguing question raised by the latest computer-assisted proof. It is as large as the entire content of Wikipedia, making it unlikely that will ever be checked by a human being. "It might be that somehow we have hit statements which are essentially non-human ...
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