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causal claim

A reader who begins with a later section of a mathematical paper may miss a condition introduced earlier, such as the requirement that P be at least five.

Unresolved speaker · Mathematics Just Changed Forever — Kevin Hartnett · 26 Oct 2026

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“But this, this, this fact that P is at least five that was sort of slipped in to section three, if you start reading in section seven you don't notice this hypothesis.”
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