paper-machine comments on Rationality Quotes: June 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 07 June 2011 12:49:07PM * 5 points [-]

Math is cumulative. Even Wiles and Perelman had to stand on the lemma-encrusted shoulders of giants.

Scott Aaronson, "Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong", which is worth reading in its own right.