¶ Proofs
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The thing about proofs is that I am really operational and for me the test is: if the airplane flies. If it does fly, then that’s operational. But the mathematicians… you read about them in Courant and Robbins… they have a different kind of criteria. Even though they know that a certain situation always produces predictable results every time, it’s not necessarily proven… The way they might have points on a surface but don’t credit the fact that the points are also on the other side of the surface. But you know the way I start out with one point, then two points, then three points, and the insideness and outsideness with four points… That shows that principles can be realized independent of size.
