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by Panoramix·10y ago·view on hn ↗
I'm not a mathematician and it always amazes me how people can come up with this stuff. How do you even start such a proof? (I know there are a lot worse ones). Does it just strike as a flash and you see the whole thing? or the general direction, and then you start tweaking it? I can't imagine what it's like.
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You do a lot of messy work, and then you clean it up when you are done.

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