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What Does Certain Fact Have to Do With Anything?

February 12, 2018Original blog post

One person reminds a mathematician that proof is supposed to be the only path to certain fact. The mathematician shrugs: who said anything about facts? (In the original post, a love poem for the mathematician.)

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"I thought you said proof was the only measure of certain fact." "Sure, but what does certain fact have to do with anything?"

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-02-12-what-does-certain-fact-have-to-do-with-anything/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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