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Abstract
Some personal thoughts and opinions on what ``good quality mathematics'' is, and whether one should try to define this term rigorously. As a case study, the story of Szemerédi's theorem is presented.
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12 pages, no figures. To appear, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0702396 is a very thorough answer to this question by a very well respected mathematician
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