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The true essence of mathematics is not raw axiomatic formalization; mathematics is something much more human.

Drawn from what Stephen Wolfram said

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

What Stephen Wolfram actually said

  1. Stephen Wolfram Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research
    Elise maintained that raw axiomatic formalization cannot be the true essence of math and that math is really something much more human. And finally, just a few years ago, by a long and circuitous route, I came to realize that-despite my obstinate insistence to the contrary-she'd been right about this all along.

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