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Comment author: multifoliaterose 09 August 2010 02:00:38AM *  3 points [-]

Yes, there are humans mathematicians who doubt that P is not equal to NP.

See "Guest Column: The P=?NP Poll" http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/papers/poll.pdf by William Gasarch where a poll was taken of 100 experts, 9 of whom ventured the guess that P = NP and 22 of whom offered no opinion on how the P vs. NP question will be resolved. The document has quotes from various of the people polled elaborating on what their beliefs are on this matter.