alt Hacker NewsI can almost see two branches of mathematics developing. One which is human-understandable, the other formally verified. I assume the latter is a strict superset of the former?
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JadeNB • yesterday at 10:54 PM
Presumably there's not much logical obstruction to all human-understandable math eventually being formalized, although the willingness and ability to commit the requisite enormous amount of time will probably be insurmountable. But definitely that hasn't happened already!
I suggest "Catching crumbs from the table" by Ted Chiang. Very short piece published in Nature (2000) and well worth a read. Depicts a scenario where modified humans produce science beyond ordinary scientists' comprehension.