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|    Wisdom90 to All    |
|    We are only visiting the shore of mathem    |
|    28 May 20 12:04:33    |
      From: d@d.d              Hello..                     We are only visiting the shore of mathematics              I like Doron Zeilberger’s 66th Opinion:              "all what human mathematics does is apply implicit exponential-time       algorithms, called “heuristics” to find some trivial pebbles on the       shore of the (even decidable part!) of the mathematical ocean."              In short, a mathematician solves trivial problems, a mathematician with       a computer solves semi-trivial problems, but we are only visiting the       shore of mathematics.              It is very insightful. One could look at the current state of higher       mathematics, observe that progress is slowing and conclude that we have       pretty much covered the realm of useful mathematics. In truth, we have       maybe covered the realm of mathematics we could handle with a human       brain. And current computers probably can’t help us too much.              Read more here:              https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion66.html                     Thank you,       Amine Moulay Ramdane.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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