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The unwritten goals of mathematics must be made explicit, and examining and codifying them will leave the community stronger and more resilient.

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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 argue that it will become necessary to make these unwritten goals of mathematics much more explicit; but once we have thoroughly examined and codified them, our community will emerge stronger and more resilient than before.

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