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Kevin Hartnett considered teaching systems basic mathematical definitions more viable than teaching them proofs that are 100 pages long.
Unresolved speaker · Mathematics Just Changed Forever — Kevin Hartnett · 26 Oct 2026
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“But somehow the idea of teaching the systems basic mathematical definitions seemed to be much more viable than teaching it, you know, one hundred-page long proofs of theorems.”43:01Report a misattribution
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