Comment by mswphd
11 hours ago
complex searches are quite valuable in mathematics. For example, Maryna Viazovska's fields medal was for finding the right gadget (roughly, a complex search) to prove optimality results in sphere packings.
11 hours ago
complex searches are quite valuable in mathematics. For example, Maryna Viazovska's fields medal was for finding the right gadget (roughly, a complex search) to prove optimality results in sphere packings.
Right, my comment was not about its usefulness. I was merely pointing out that those results do not necessarily imply any kind of actual understanding.