https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1501.02155/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40290345urn:hackerpapers:mention:1501.02155:40290345Tue, 07 May 2024 19:21:36 GMT<p>In this particular case, the proof literally hasn’t been written up yet! The papers are works in progress, only one of which has been even posted as a preprint so far. But in general it’s reasonably common for a proof to have been written up to the best of the author’s ability, and for it still to be impossible for anyone else to understand it well enough to be confident in its correctness. Formal logic was no help, for two reasons. First of all the formal logical systems of the early 20th century were really a sort of existence proof, to show that a formal logical system can in principle be…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1501.02155/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>math.MG