Name: On Proof and Progress in Mathematics
Creator: Thurston, William P.
Keywords: Mathematics - History and Overview, History and Overview (math.HO), Quinn, 05 social sciences, 06 humanities and the arts, Jaffe, Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations, 0603 philosophy, ethics and religion, Sociology (and profession) of mathematics, math.HO

On proof and progress in mathematics

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Part of book or chapter of book , Article , Preprint 01 Jan 1994Embargo end date: 01 Jan 1994 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, volume 30, pages 161-178 (issn: 0273-0979,

Authors: Thurston, William P.;

doi: 10.1007/0-387-29831-2_3 , 10.1090/s0273-0979-1994-00502-6 , 10.48550/arxiv.math/9404236

arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9404236

On Proof and Progress in Mathematics

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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.

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University of California, San Francisco
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Mathematics - History and Overview, History and Overview (math.HO), Quinn, Jaffe, Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations, Sociology (and profession) of mathematics, math.HO, proof, Fields medallist, progress in mathematics, FOS: Mathematics

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