Comment by nicf
1 day ago
No, what I'm saying is that I don't agree that taste in mathematics is more uniform than taste in coding! Mathematicians argue about taste all the time. Just as you might look at a piece of code and agree that it compiles and doesn't have any fatal bugs but still think it's badly written, hard to follow, hard to modify, or whatever else, mathematicians judge mathematical work using very similar criteria.
Maybe a subset of mathematicians, but if someone proved that RH was undecidable we would still give them the millennium prize.