Mathematician: Everything We Know About Math Could Be Wrong | Hard Science - Futurism - The Byte

Daniel Robitzski, Science Journalist and Fencing Coach reports, It turns out that a great deal of mathematicians simply trust that the foundations of a new discovery are sound, Motherboard reports.

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Theoretical math tends to be so complicated that even the researchers pushing the field forward can’t quite grasp it all.

If a prominent researcher cites a mathematical proof in their work, others may assume it’s true without actually checking for themselves. And that has Imperial College London mathematician Kevin Buzzard concerned that the whole field is about to go up in flames...

Automated Academics 
To help mathematicians reach sound conclusions without making them dive into thousands of pages of inscrutable operations, Buzzard suggested in his opening talk at a math conference that the field turn to artificial intelligence tools that can do the grunt work for them.
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