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Title: On proof and progress in mathematics
Authors: William P. Thurston
Categories: math.HO History and Overview
Comments: 17 pages. Abstract added in migration.
Report number: Bulletin migration 11/99
Journal reference: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 30 (1994) 161-177
Abstract: In response to Jaffe and Quinn [math.HO/9307227], the author discusses forms
of progress in mathematics that are not captured by formal proofs of theorems,
especially in his own work in the theory of foliations and geometrization of
3-manifolds and dynamical systems.
Owner: William P. Thurston
Version 1: Fri, 1 Apr 1994 00:00:00 GMT
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