A cosmologist agreed that mathematics functions as a religious order, and that watching it fall must be like watching heaven being plundered.
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Mathematicians describe grief rather than competition
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One mathematician called the results the last straw for academic mathematics, since specialists spend months per conjecture in silos and now an amateur can one-shot a life's work, while another described a dark night of mathematics, arguing discovery was how humans touched the ineffable and asking whether foreclosing it for future mathematicians is itself a kind of evil.
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