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Mathematics is entering a period of turbulence that will stress-test its implicit values and practices rather than its foundations of truth.

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mathematics Doing mathematics: proof, conjecture, and what mathematicians want that other fields do not.

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  1. Terence Tao
    I believe that we are now entering a era of comparable turbulence in mathematics. This time, though, what is being stress-tested is not our foundational framework for mathematical truth, but rather the largely implicit framework of mathematical values and practices: what we consider a contribution to be, what we reward, what we regard as understood, and who - or what - we regard as having done the work.

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