As far as I can tell, the whole job of mathematics professors is to obfuscate the fact that this is a thing.
@DRMacIver is a computer scientist and hasn’t been forced to take the sacred vows of silence. Yet. They won’t let him go much furtherhttps://twitter.com/DRMacIver/status/1189827287748927488 …
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What is true is that few mathematics professors are willing to confess publicly their private heuristics and intuitions; as Grothendieck once famously lamented, a perverse taboo among them seems to seal their lips on these matters, which, as Leibniz correctly argued, matter most.
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Yes, exactly that!
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Yes, the joke here is a silly explanation for the mystery of why they are mainly unable or unwilling to explain what math is or how to do it, which would (to an outsider) seem to be a large part of the job.
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