Thread: What is proof?
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Old 10-16-2007, 06:35 PM
madnak madnak is offline
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Why is it sad? Why should everything demand the kind of certainty had in mathematics?

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For one thing, I think technology would move along at a much faster pace. But I'm just talking about the lack of simplicity, and my own discomfort with uncertainty.

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