Mathematics is not a deductive science – that’s a cliche. When you try to prove a theorem, you don’t just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.
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Mathematics is not a deductive science – that’s a cliche. When you try to prove a theorem, you don’t just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.”