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Comment by pervycreeper

Assuming progress continues long enough: as proofs (and theorems) become more complex, the computational difficulty of verification, combined with the inherent physical impossibility of obtaining absolute certainty in the correctness of a computation will transform future mathematics into an empirical science, where mathematical hypotheses will be tested by computer, and results will be considered true only probabilistically.

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