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Date: 2011-10-04 10:45 am (UTC)But a theorem was true all along, even before anyone knew about it.
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Date: 2011-10-04 12:11 pm (UTC)Given that the mathematician is free to choose the axioms and inference rules he or she works with, is "discovered" the correct word? I'm not wholly sure. Most people would feel uncomfortable saying that Charles Dickens "discovered" the sequence of letters, spaces and punctuation that made The Tale of Two Cities.