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Comment by TimorousBestie

1 day ago

> pure mathematicians lost themselves in the formalization of hypothesizing/modeling and thus lost touch with mapping it to reality.

You’re describing a very small fragment of total current mathematical labor. Very few people work solely on “formalization” and even e.g. model theory or type theory have real consequences.

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