On 11/12/2010 12:14 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> By contrast, this paper seems to assert that mathematics is about
> constructing abstractions and building theories out of them as a matter
> of creativity. Obviously I've never seen any cutting-edge mathematics
> (and I never will), but I've always thought of mathematics looking at
> interesting systems and discovering their properties, out of simple
> human curiosity. Certainly that's why *I* explore mathematics; it's the
> desire to know everything about everything.

Thinking about it... No, I'm not very good at math. I never bother 
proving things.

According to the paper, the proof is far more important than the result 
(at least as far as mathematicians are concerned). I always considered 
the proof to be the most boring part.

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