Terry Tao on post-rigorous math. Beginning research students sometimes struggle with this https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/there%E2%80%99s-more-to-mathematics-than-rigour-and-proofs/ …pic.twitter.com/Ar5O3slKeD
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@michael_nielsen Rigour is a chimera. Only 'as precise as the problem requires' exists. #2 should be called the unnecessarily precise stage
That said, I agree that it's often over-emphasized. Students get the idea math is about rigour, not about ideas & insight
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This isn't specific to math. The "big picture"/"rigorous details" tradeoff shows up everywhere
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