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Mathematicians' usual approach to checking proofs works for the most part when a proof is close to existing knowledge and extends it incrementally.
Unresolved speaker · Mathematics Just Changed Forever — Kevin Hartnett · 26 Oct 2026
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“And for the most part, that works, especially when proofs are kind of close to the existing body of knowledge, when they kind of go just incrementally beyond things we already understand to be true.”7:24Report a misattribution
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