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norir 45 minutes ago [-]
Terry Tao is a next level vibe coder: he inspires people to do his vibe coding for him. As someone with a background in advanced math, though never even close to Tao's level, I find myself skeptical about this type of mathematics. I don't personally find it beautiful and it feels like the line between the profound and the trivial (as in of minimal importance not difficulty) is blurry. One could argue for pure mathematics that is of no practical utility but is aesthetically beautiful, but I struggle to see the beauty in a gargantuan lean proof constructed by 100 different people. Perhaps this work will lead to deeper insight about the universe and the human condition, but I catch a whiff of problem solving for the sake of problem solving untethered from a deeper sense of purpose and meaning.
throwaway67678 40 minutes ago [-]
Arguments about beauty don't lead anywhere constructive because they are too observer- and context-dependent. Poincaré himself was decrying continuous non-differentiable functions as abominations. The monster group is, well, just like that. What feels intellectually ugly for one generation is natural for the next, and the field moves on
Ygg2 31 minutes ago [-]
According to legends Pythagoreans tried to surpress existence of irrational numbers because they couldn't be expressed as ratio of natural numbers
Supposedly even drowned their member that divulged their existence.
nylonstrung 17 minutes ago [-]
More accurate title would be "Terry Tao Became an Evangelist for Lean"
Supposedly even drowned their member that divulged their existence.