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Thomas Hales used computational methods that he would have wanted to apply to other problems, but his work did not create broadly new mathematics.

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

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“And in Hales' case, I mean, there were some computational methods that he would have wanted to apply to other problems, but he was not inventing kind of like broadly new mathematics.”
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