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    1. Alex Kontorovich‏ @AlexKontorovich 20 Mar 2019
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      Alex Kontorovich Retweeted Plus Magazine

      The difficulty in keeping an airtight seal in proofs is nothing new (for a particularly egregious recent-ish example, see https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.1291 , though there are plenty of others, perhaps not as prominent...). Trying to address it with computers is also not so new (Voevodsky)https://twitter.com/plusmathsorg/status/1108034721123106816 …

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      Is the standard of proof in pure maths really as high as mathematicians would like to believe? Here's someone who think it's not. Discuss... https://plus.maths.org/content/pure-maths-crisis …
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    2.  🐘 Antoine Chambert-Loir‏ @achambertloir 20 Mar 2019
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      What is a bit new with Kevin's work, is that he is checking a totally new field of mathematics (Scholze's theory of perfectoids), not a particular remarkable theorem. Sébastien Gouëzel in Nantes also checked a theorem of him, and discovered/corrected a mistake in another paper!

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    3. Scoffing Mathematician  🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺‏ @BarbaraFantechi 20 Mar 2019
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      Replying to @achambertloir @AlexKontorovich

      I wish the article had 1) included this info 2) included opinions of other mathematicians. As written, it is nothing more than a press release and not worthy anyone's attention.

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      bgc‏ @blockspins 20 Mar 2019
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      Replying to @BarbaraFantechi @achambertloir @AlexKontorovich

      Kevin Buzzard has several posts on his "Xena Project" blog which probably should have been linked https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2018/09/22/formalising-mathematics-a-mathematicians-personal-viewpoint/ …https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2018/10/07/what-is-the-xena-project/ …

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        1. Scoffing Mathematician  🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺‏ @BarbaraFantechi 20 Mar 2019
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          Replying to @blockspins @achambertloir @AlexKontorovich

          Someone that smart (and, I suspect, a native speaker of English) could really make the tiny effort to use nonsexist language. So long as he calls it manpower, I assume it's not relevant to me.

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