our researchers have recently come out with a model that upends the
conventional wisdom in their field. They have used intensive
computational data to suggest that for decades, if not longer,
prevailing opinion about a fundamental concept has been wrong.
These are not biologists, climatologists or physicists. They don’t
come from a field in which empirical models get a say in determining
what counts as true. Instead they are mathematicians, representatives of
a discipline whose standard currency — indisputable logical proof —
normally spares them the kinds of debates that consume other fields. Yet
here they are, model in hand, suggesting that it might be time to
re-evaluate some long-held beliefs.
Read the full article from https://www.quantamagazine.org/without-a-proof-mathematicians-wonder-how-much-evidence-is-enough-20181031/
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