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zarzavat
2 days ago | 0 comments
Dis
proving big conjectures can be useful to mathematicans because it means they don’t have to waste time proving results that assume that conjecture.
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curt15
2 days ago
Sometimes the very attempt to disprove a conjecture will produce new insights along the way. To get comparable value when a machine simply spits a counterexample, you'd need to at least mine the intermediate reasoning traces to see its false starts.
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[–] curt15 2 days ago